Using interactive multimedia to teach parent advocacy skills: an exploratory study.

OBJECTIVE

To examine the efficacy of Brain Injury Partners: Advocacy Skills for Parents, an interactive multimedia intervention that provides training in educational advocacy skills for parents of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

DESIGN

Randomized trial, with participants assigned to treatment (Brain Injury Partners CD-ROM) or control (alternate CD-ROM) conditions.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES

Knowledge; skill application; and attitude, behavioral intention, and self-efficacy to use key advocacy skills.

PARTICIPANTS

Thirty-one parents of children with TBI.

RESULTS

The Brain Injury Partners group reported higher postintervention adjusted means for application, knowledge, and attitudes scale scores than did the control group.

CONCLUSIONS

The results demonstrate the utility of a computer-delivered intervention for training parents in key skills for communicating with school personnel.