DVD Content Research Articles

Process Evaluation of a Mailed Interactive Educational DVD in a Comparative Effectiveness Trial to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening.

A process evaluation was conducted as part of a comparative effectiveness trial of a mailed interactive educational DVD intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening among average-risk patients who did not attend a scheduled colonoscopy. Participants (n = 371) for the trial were randomized to (1) mailed DVD, (2) mailed DVD plus patient navigation, or (3) usual care. Participants (n = 243) randomized to the two DVD intervention arms were called 2 weeks after mailing materials to complete a process evaluation interview about the DVD (September 2017-February 2020). Forty-nine (20%) participants were not reached, and 194 (80%) participants watched the DVD and completed the interview. The process evaluation assessed whether (1) the DVD content was helpful, (2) any new information was learned by participants, (3) the appropriate amount of information was included in the DVD, (4) participants were engaged when watching the DVD, (5) the DVD content was relevant, (6) participants were satisfied with the DVD (7) participants would recommend the DVD to others, and (8) their opinion about colorectal cancer screening was changed by watching the DVD. Among participants who watched the DVD, 99% reported the screening information was very or somewhat helpful, 47% learned new information, 75% said the DVD included the right amount of information, they were engaged (M = 3.35 out of 4, SD = 0.49), 87% reported all or most information applied to them, they were satisfied (M = 3.42 out of 4, SD = 0.39) with DVD content, 99% would recommend the DVD to others, and 45% reported changing their opinion about screening. To understand the effects of interventions being tested in trials and to plan the dissemination of evidence-based interventions, process evaluation is critical to assess the dose received and acceptability of behavioral interventions.

Efficacy of education delivery through multimedia and text messaging on the psychological parameters of patients scheduled for coronary angiography: a single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial

BackgroundAngiography is a highly effective invasive method for diagnosing coronary artery diseases but can lead to certain psychological problems such as stress, anxiety, and depression. This study aimed to compare the effects of education delivery through multimedia DVD content or text messaging in comparison with conventional printed pamphlets on the psychological parameters of patients scheduled for angiography.MethodsThis study was a randomized controlled clinical trial. We used the convenience sampling method to select 120 patients who met the inclusion criteria among individuals who were scheduled for elective coronary angiography. The patients were randomly divided into three groups through the block randomization method. The necessary educational tips for before, during, and after the angiography procedure were delivered to the patients in interventional group 1 (n = 40) and interventional group 2 (n = 40) through text messages and a multimedia DVD, respectively. The control group received routine hospital education through pamphlets besides the opportunity for verbal discussions with nurses. All educational content was delivered to the patients four days before the scheduled day of angiography. The DASS-21 questionnaire, consisting of the three domains of stress, anxiety, and depression, was used to collect the data. The questionnaire was administered at the time of delivering the educational content as the pretest evaluation and 30 min after the angiography procedure as the posttest evaluation. SPSS software, version 18, was used for statistical analysis.ResultsThere was no significant difference among the three groups of patients in terms of pretest DASS-21 scores. Conversely, the mean posttest scores in all DASS-21 domains were significantly lower among the patients receiving education via the multimedia DVD or text messaging in comparison with the control group (P < 0.001). However, there were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores in all domains between the participants in the DVD and text messaging groups.ConclusionIt seems that both DVDs and text messaging are more effective than conventional pamphlets in controlling the anxiety, stress, and stress of patients scheduled for elective coronary artery angiography.Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials: IRCT registration number: IRCT2015030121283N1, Registration date: 2015-10-05, 1394/07/13

Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965–1972

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Corrected DVD Tracks 1 and 3 for Disc Users

Abstract The “Supplementary Material” link on the abstract page for this article contains two freely downloadable video files. These are corrected versions of two tracks whose audio on the physical DVD is defective: MindBox and Transmissions from a Dying Planet. Please use these in place of tracks 1 and 3 on the DVD. We apologize for the errors. These files have already been corrected in the “DVD Content” article for this website. However, the tracks have been made free here for Computer Music Journal readers who have the DVD but don't have subscriber-level access to the online version of the issue.

New Program Helps Reduce Stigma of Getting Care

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessNew Program Helps Reduce Stigma of Getting CareJonathan WolfeJonathan WolfeSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:4 May 2012https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.47.9.psychnews_47_9_10-aAbstract While emotional strength and determination have enabled many members of the black community to overcome great adversity throughout history, African Americans are still just as likely to suffer from a mental illness as white Americans.This is just one of the facts highlighted in Mental Health: A Guide for African Americans and Their Families, a new free public-education tool developed by APA in partnership with the African Methodist Episcopal Church.Composed of a 35-page guidebook and a DVD, the culturally tailored consumer-oriented program focuses on the unique experience of a community in which racism, discrimination, poverty, and lack of health insurance may limit access to effective mental health treatment.The guidebook notes, for example, that African Americans are more likely than those of other races or ethnicities to visit a health care clinician with complaints of physical symptoms that are actually the manifestation of an untreated mental illness.And negative associations with mental illness may also pose a barrier to members of the black community seeking mental health care, according to the guidebook, with one study finding that African Americans are much less willing than white Americans to take medication for a mental illness.“The stigma is real in the African-American community when it comes to mental illness,” says former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., now director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, in the guidebook’s 22-minute companion DVD. “The good news is that we now know so much more about mental illness than we did before.”Also providing commentary on the DVD about the different types of mental illness and how best to treat them are Tracee Burroughs, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, and Michael Torres, M.D., medical director of Universal Counseling Services Inc. in Baltimore and president of the Center for the Integration of Spirituality and Mental Health.In addition, the DVD features several African Americans speaking about their experiences with depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and posttraumatic stress disorder.The guidebook and DVD also highlight the role that spirituality and “pastoral counseling” often play in providing additional support to members of the black community who are dealing with mental illness.“APA looks forward to disseminating widely this valuable resource to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness in the black community and to encourage treatment-seeking and a recovery-oriented approach to psychiatric care among African Americans with mental health needs,” said Annelle Primm, M.D., M.P.H., director of APA’s Office of Minority and National Affairs. “Mental Health: A Guide for African Americans and Their Families” is available via e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at (888) 357-7924. The guidebook and a video of the DVD content are also available for download on APA’s Web site at www.psychiatry.org/practice/professional-interests/diversityomna/diversity-resources/----mental-health--a-guide-for-african-americans-and-their-families. ISSUES NewArchived

Infant‐directed media: an analysis of product information and claims

AbstractInfant DVDs typically have titles and even company names that imply some educational benefit. It is not known whether these educational claims are reflected in actual content. The present study examined this question. Of 686 claims (across 58 programs) listed on packaging, websites and promotional materials, implicit claims were most frequent (37%) followed by uncodable/vague claims (25%), a list of included content (24%), and explicit claims (14%). The most frequently targeted educational domain was general knowledge claim (32%), followed by language/literacy claim (29%), social–emotional claim (15%), physical claim (12%), and cognitive development claim (12%). Number of claims in a domain was positively associated with the percentage of scenes featuring that domain content (Mean r = 0.52), indicating a moderate degree of match between claims and DVD content. Overall, both claims and content were disproportionately targeted to language and general knowledge content areas, relative to social, physical and cognitive domains. Even when claims are developmentally appropriate, there is some difficulty in translating of producer claims into educational DVD content. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Converting Pirates Without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy

The availability of digital channels for media distribution has raised several important questions for marketers, notably whether digital distribution channels will cannibalize physical sales and whether legitimate digital distribution channels will dissuade consumers from using (illegitimate) digital piracy channels. We address these two questions using the removal of NBC content from Apple’s iTunes store in December 2007, and its restoration in September 2008, as natural shocks to the supply of legitimate digital content, and analyzing its impact on demand through BitTorrent piracy channels and the Amazon.com DVD store. To do this we collect two large datasets from Mininova and Amazon.com documenting levels of piracy and DVD sales for both NBC and other major networks’ content around these events. We analyze this data in a difference-in-difference model and find that NBC’s decision to remove its content from iTunes in December 2007 is causally associated with an 11.2% increase in the demand for pirated content. This is roughly equivalent to an increase of 49,000 downloads a day for NBC's content and is approximately twice as large as the total legal purchases on iTunes for the same content in the period preceding the removal. We also find evidence of a smaller, and statistically insignificant, decrease in piracy for the same content when it was restored to the iTunes store in September 2008. Finally, we see no change in demand for NBC’s DVD content at Amazon.com associated with NBC’s closing or reopening of their digital distribution channel on iTunes.

DVD Supplements: A Commentary on Commentaries

DVD Supplements:A Commentary on Commentaries Giorgio Bertellini (bio) and Jacqueline Reich (bio) In the past decade, as graduate seminars have explored the postmodern heuristics of the "death of the author," DVD editions have popularized a range of audio and print supplements that have, directly or indirectly, expanded films' authorial halo. The notion of the commentary is, of course, nothing new to the academy: consider the multiple annotated editions of literary classics. But its material extension to the home theater "experience" has had peculiar cultural and economic consequences. As value-adding paratexts, audio and printed commentaries can turn film texts into critical or luxury editions, to be marketed to different levels of cinephilic and commercial consumption.1 Introduced in 1984 by Criterion Collection (then part of the Voyager Company) for a niche market of laser disc buyers, Ronald Haver's audio commentary on King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, 1933) ultimately [End Page 103] inaugurated this trend. Since the late 1990s, most DVD editions of classic, critically rediscovered, and new films have made the audio commentary a key component of an ever-growing menu of special features—including entire director's cuts, deleted scenes, making-of documentaries, exclusive or vintage interviews with the film's makers or celebrated critics, video essays, professional biographies, and photographic essays. Criterion's success in this area is widely acknowledged, and their releases with commentaries are not limited to art or classic films: the company's best-selling DVD is the hyper-commented Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998; Criterion DVD, 2003).2 Specially written essays (often referred to as liner notes and derived from recording industry practices) have also become a familiar fixture in the marketing of authorially ambitious DVD releases. They are particularly common as inserts with box sets or special two-disc editions, when they may even take the form of elegant booklets that share the size, cover, and layout of the box set and of its DVD cases. Even though materially extrinsic to the DVD content, accompanying essays affect the appeal of many DVD editions as they too, when accessed, mediate consumers' overall experiences—as film instructors (and their students) know all too well.3 Because they are cheaper to produce, written materials are sometimes added in place of audio commentaries. As Jason Viteritti, Director of DVD Production at Koch Lorber, a division of E1 Entertainment, recounted in an interview with the authors, this was the rationale in the production of the eight-disc box set, The Marco Ferreri Collection (2008), which includes a documentary on Ferreri's films, a vintage filmed interview with the director, and a booklet—but no audio commentary.4 Two types of commentaries dominate the market: those made by directors and individuals variously involved in the making of the film (cinematographers, screenwriters, actors, producers, and even sound designers); and those made by critics and scholars solicited if filmmakers are foreign (Wong Kar-Wai), permanently unwilling or unavailable (Godard), excessively loquacious (Tarantino), or deceased (Lang, Truffaut, Fellini). There are also subscenarios or exceptions: when the critic-scholar in question was actually present during the filming, as in the case of British critic-photographer Gideon Bachmann, who comments on Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963; Criterion DVD, 2001); or when filmmakers express their opinions as critics of a film made by someone else, as director Steven Soderbergh and writer/director Tony Gilroy did for the Criterion edition of The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949; Critierion DVD, 2007). When soliciting an audio commentary or an essay, DVD production companies take several factors into consideration. The identification of the contributor generally reveals the desire for an established authorial or a balanced critical competence capable of attracting an audience of cinephiles, or an added "plus" for the average consumer, which in turn leads to multiple film viewings. Commentaries vary a great deal in quality, [End Page 104] as every viewer knows. They can paraphrase the obvious in an all-too-close analysis or get lost in the vagaries of anecdotes or historical contextualizations. Although audio commentaries (as well as written essays) tend to provide "suggested readings" that often crystallize established critical interpretations, for teaching purposes we particularly appreciate...

An observation-based intervention for stroke rehabilitation: experiences of eight individuals affected by stroke

Purpose. To explore eight individuals’ experiences and responses to taking part in a personalised observation-based intervention for stroke rehabilitation.Methods. Eight participants who had experienced a cerebrovascular accident were recruited to a 16-week observation-based intervention. Participants were interviewed face-to-face to explore their responses to, and experiences of, taking part in the intervention. A list of topics, derived from the intervention process and earlier studies provided a provisional structure for the interview. All interviews were transcribed, coded and analysed using inductive content analysis to explore the impact of the observational intervention for these participants.Results. Three main themes emerged: physical function, behaviour change and DVD content. Lower order themes were also identified. These included: interaction with the physiotherapist; ability to complete tasks; and increased motivation to (re)engage in activities of everyday living.Conclusion. The findings suggest that a programme of action observation, linked to individualised and meaningful motor behaviours can provide a valid intervention for individuals affected by stroke by serving as a motivating agent to (re)engage in activities which they had believed they could not perform following their stroke. There was also evidence for positive affect on psychological wellbeing and motor function.

Service users leading the way

The English government sees it important to view service users as active partners in the delivery of accessible resources. The current article follows a brief report which described an innovative project on developing an accessible DVD explaining the Birmingham Clinical Psychology Service to people with learning disabilities. The article describes three focus groups involving adults with learning disabilities that met to reflect and evaluate the accessibility of the DVD. This process formed the evaluative phase of the DVD development project where people with learning disabilities evaluated the accessibility, level of understanding, and clarity of the DVD content. The DVD was rated positively by the focus groups, and minor changes were made to the final version of the DVD. The article also reflects upon the use of focus groups as a methodological approach in researching the views of people with learning disabilities.

Converting Pirates Without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy

The availability of digital channels for media distribution has raised many important questions for marketers, notably, whether digital distribution channels will cannibalize physical sales and whether legitimate digital distribution channels will dissuade consumers from using (illegitimate) digital piracy channels. We address these two questions using the removal of NBC content from Apple's iTunes store in December 2007, and its restoration in September 2008, as natural shocks to the supply of legitimate digital content, and we analyze the impact of this shock on demand through BitTorrent piracy channels and the Amazon.com DVD store. To do this we collected two large data sets from Mininova.com and Amazon.com, documenting levels of piracy and DVD sales for both NBC and other major networks' content around these events. We analyze these data in a difference-in-difference model and find that NBC's decision to remove its content from iTunes in December 2007 is causally associated with an 11.4% increase in the demand for NBC's pirated content. This is roughly equivalent to an increase of 48,000 downloads a day for NBC's content and is approximately twice as large as the total legal purchases on iTunes for the same content in the period preceding the removal. We also find evidence of a smaller, and statistically insignificant, decrease in piracy for the same content when it was restored to the iTunes store in September 2008. Finally, we see no change in demand for NBC's DVD content at Amazon.com associated with NBC's closing or reopening of its digital distribution channel on iTunes.

An audiovisual information resource to assist in the transition from completion of potentially curative treatment for cancer through to survivorship: A systematic development process

Improvements in cancer screening and treatment are resulting in an increase in the number of cancer patients completing treatment who are apparently cured of their disease. There are few information resources for people at this juncture. An evidence-based DVD was developed for individuals at this stage with information about experiences encountered as a cancer survivor (CS). Focus groups and a literature review were conducted to establish the DVD content. The DVD was developed in conjunction with a multidisciplinary committee and according to a recommended best-practice framework. Interviews with CS and evidence-based commentary by health professionals (HP) made up the DVD. The final phase of development was to evaluate the usefulness and acceptability of the DVD with CS and HP. A 52-min DVD with nine chapters was developed featuring 13 CS, a medical oncologist and a clinical psychologist. Thirty-two CS and 116 HP evaluated the DVD. Both groups considered the DVD was informative (CS 97%; HP 98%), easy to understand (CS and HP 100%), reassuring (CS 91%; HP 92%), relevant to their circumstances (CS 68%; HP 97%), did not contain too much information (CS 75%; HP 71%) and was not distressing to watch (CS 84%; HP 80%). The DVD was well accepted by both CS and HP. Modifications were made as a result of the evaluations, the most significant of which was re-filming of commentary by the two HP. Future research should evaluate the effectiveness of the DVD in controlled trials with outcomes such as quality of long term health, symptom burden and cancer specific distress. The DVD is expected to be a useful resource for CS living beyond effective treatment for cancer.

Empathy for adolescents' role model selection and learning of DVD content

Male and female high school and college students viewed a DVD about a love story. Youth who more readily empathized with media characters were more likely to perceive same-sex characters as role models and were better able to understand the story content. The findings suggest that fantasy empathy, in which viewers become deeply involved in narratives, may hold a key regarding the influence of media characters and media presentations. That is, certain viewers may be particularly influenced by fictional media portrayals and learn and understand the content at a deeper level. In addition, the kinds of role models presented in these portrayals may provide a guide to similar problems that these viewers may encounter in real life. The findings have implications for the kinds of films and DVDs that producers make for audiences of different ages and experiential backgrounds.