Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
Health Informatics J. 2009 Dec;15(4):282-95. doi: 10.1177/1460458209345899.
The study objective was to describe the prospective use of an interactive Patient Education and Motivation Tool (PEMT) placed within a pediatric emergency department (ED). A touch screen computer was utilized to deliver asthma education to children and their parents/guardians during their acute asthma visit between November 2006 and April 2007. Ninety-nine participants were enrolled in this prospective non-randomized pre-post study. PEMT comprised three key components: screening, learning and evaluation. The tool tracked the date the system was used, user characteristics, asthma knowledge, amount of time spent on each screen, and navigational patterns of individuals using the program. The results showed that baseline asthma knowledge had positive association with age and negative association with time spent in the learning module. There was negative association between age and time spent in the learning module. Thus PEMT was effective in improving the asthma knowledge of young patients and those having lower baseline knowledge.
本研究旨在描述一种互动式患者教育和激励工具（PEMT）在儿科急诊部门（ED）的预期使用。在 2006 年 11 月至 2007 年 4 月期间，利用触摸屏电脑为急性哮喘就诊的儿童及其父母/监护人提供哮喘教育。本前瞻性非随机前后研究共纳入 99 名参与者。PEMT 由三个关键组成部分组成：筛选、学习和评估。该工具跟踪系统使用的日期、用户特征、哮喘知识、每个屏幕上花费的时间以及使用该程序的个人的导航模式。结果表明，基线哮喘知识与年龄呈正相关，与学习模块中花费的时间呈负相关。年龄与学习模块中花费的时间呈负相关。因此，PEMT 有效地提高了年轻患者和基线知识较低患者的哮喘知识。
