Design and Validation of Education Multimedia Program for Patients With Fecal Diversions: A Quality Improvement Project to Enhance Self-Care
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to design and validate a multimedia educational software program for patients with fecal diversions.
PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING:
Ten individuals who had fecal diversion surgery and 10 experts including nurses, physicians, nutritionists, and information technologists from Imam Khomeini and Rasule Akram Hospitals, Tehran, Iran, the 2 main centers in which fecal diversion surgery took place, were included in the study.
APPROACH:
The multimedia educational software for patients with ostomy was developed in 3 phases including development and creation, validity, and modification of the software. Data for phase 1 were collected using 2 questionnaires, the Multimedia Survey Questionnaire for Clients and the Multimedia Survey Questionnaire for Experts, and several open-ended questions to further determine the content and face validity of the multimedia content for the education prototype.
OUTCOMES:
The mean ± standard deviation [SD] of multimedia evaluation by the 10 patients was 60 ± 3.27, indicating high user satisfaction. The mean ± SD of multimedia evaluation by the 10 experts was 171.1 ± 19.2, suggesting the content was of high quality. Content and face validity were reported to be 0.91 and 0.96, respectively. The program was then created and called “Self-Care of Ostomy,” which consisted of 8 computer-based modules with 22 short videos and slide presentations available for viewing by patients with newly...
Source: Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Ostomy Care Source Type: research
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