Multimedia Website Research Articles

Multimedia-cartographic internet service of the cultural heritage on the Puszcza Bukowa area

The main objective of this research was to design a multimedia website with a collection of thematic maps to show the values of cultural heritage sites in the “Puszcza Bukowa” Forest (Szczecin Landscape Park “Beech Forrest”) for public and expert users. In the research, the cartographic method was used together with User Centred Design, geo-information operations on BDOT10k data, and JavaScript programming using the Leaflet library. In addition to the chamber work, field research was carried out in several cartographic and geo-information applications to obtain materials for multimedia. The research process consisted of four stages:conceptual, preparatory, execution and publication of the completed service. The result of the research became a multimedia-cartographic web service, an indication that a properly designed and coded collection of spatial information can significantly affect the dissemination of cultural knowledge in protected areas.

New Virtuality

Our multimedia website project, “The New Virtuality”, explores the implications of highly realistic images that interact and socialise with human users, often seemingly “live” in real‑time. Created with imaging technologies such as holographic projection or virtual reality (VR) and usually boosted by AI and machine learning, we argue that these images present unprecedented directions in understanding how reality, liveness and presence are discerned and believed. Radically breaking down differences between real and unreal, they point to an era of blurred boundaries, dematerialization and limbic spaces which converges visual media with twenty-first century politics of dis/misinformation, post-truth and deep fakery. In this project, we discuss this era as “the new virtuality.” These developments underpin the project’s research questions: how to understand this media that so freely and near-seamlessly mix virtual and actual realities? How to place this phenomenon in media’s long history of blurred environments, while still appreciating their distinctive newness and challenges? What are the impacts of the new virtuality on our apprehensions and constructions of realities? How might this mediated reality relate – as code, as language, as consciousness – to the wider contexts of information that colour contemporary times? In our methodology, we interwove theory, multimedia expression and fiction as multiple voices to articulate the project’s arguments across three frameworks of distinct approaches, media elements and genre features. The first framework is a historical context with which to understand the continuities and divergences of virtuality. The second is the connection of theory – particularly from film, screen and media studies – with textual readings drawn across multiple media, including paintings, cinema, performance, VR, apps and architecture. The third is the employment of fiction and multimedia. Inspired by the “scientific fiction” work of Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan (Lee and Chen, 2021), we intertwined a fictional story through the project for greater animation and accessibility – a creative warp to the academic weft. Multimedia via the essays’ image margins and a 33‑minute video essay function as audiovisual “mood boards” to provide elaboration, illustration, colour and setting for conveying the new virtuality’s poetics of fudged and adrift unsettling across this new reality. The result is a work of multiple voices and hybridity which identifies a new framework of reality through contemporary mixed media. This new virtuality is no longer about the questions of realism or illusion (e.g. Friedberg 2009; Grau 2003) from computer‑generated imagery (CGI) or even deepfakes. They are about new technical codes and information which give rise to revised conceptions of ontology, anthropology, epistemology, literacy, time and space. They are new systems of complex linkages between media, codes, expressions, consciousness, change and history. These ideas not only impact understanding of our world. They also revise orientations of truth values and identifications of moral spaces.

Paul Nordoff’s Songs, Performed by the Composer

The American composer, Paul Nordoff, set 37 of E.E. Cummings poems to music. Fourteen of these he recorded himself, as both singer and pianist, twelve as a private 1961 Christmas greeting to a close colleague, and two more in 1972. This article explores those recordings in some detail. Audio files accompany the article, available on the NATS Multimedia website, along with modern studio recordings of ten of the songs.

Interactive Multimedia Website Assisted in Learning Basic Japanese Language

The mastery of all four language skills that include listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills can determine the level of the students in learning the Japanese language. Therefore, the students should have understood the meaning and usage of vocabulary and grammar to achieve a certain level of proficiency in learning the Japanese language. Learners must acquire a sufficient amount of Japanese vocabulary items to achieve competency in these four language skills. This research aims to identify the students' perceptions of using the interactive multimedia website in acquiring vocabulary and grammar among Japanese language learners in UPM. This research also analyses the participants' behavior while learning the Japanese language using the interactive multimedia website. This research has applied a qualitative data collection method that focused on interviews and observation. The researcher has developed an interactive multimedia website to enable users to learn Japanese words and grammar using an e-learning platform application that incorporates various multimedia tools such as animation, songs, graphics, and movies. Moreover, the Internet might prove to be successful in turning traditional classrooms into communicative and student-centered classrooms. The result indicates the need for an interactive multimedia website in learning vocabulary and grammar in the Japanese language more engaging, apart from facilitating independent learning among Japanese language learners in UPM.

Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: A randomised controlled trial.

Objective:To compare two methods of providing information about the Bone Anchored Maxillary Protraction (BAMP) trial: standard printed information and multimedia websites, for their quality and ease of understanding, and impact on decision-making.Design:Randomised controlled trial.Setting:Orthodontic outpatient clinic in the UK.Methods:Participants were 109 adolescents (aged 11–14 years) attending for orthodontic treatment. While awaiting treatment they were asked to imagine being recruited to the BAMP clinical trial. They were individually randomised to receive the printed or the multimedia website information (comprising text, animations and ‘talking head’ videos). After reading or viewing the information, they completed a 9-item Likert scale Decision-Making Questionnaire (DMQ) (score range 0–36) plus three free-text questions on their evaluation of the information.Results:A total of 104 participants completed the questionnaire. Mean total DMQ scores were higher (more positive) in the website group (28.1 vs. 27.0), although the difference was small and not statistically significant (P = 0.20). Analysis of individual questionnaire items showed two statistically significant differences: the website information had higher ratings on ‘easy to understand’ (Z = 3.03; P = 0.003) and ‘confidence in decision-making’ (Z = 2.00; P = 0.044). On the three free-text questions, more positive and fewer negative comments were made about the websites than the printed information.Conclusion:In this hypothetical trial setting, adolescent patients found that trial information conveyed on a multimedia website was easier to understand and made them more confident in their decision about trial participation. Their subjective evaluations of the website were also more positive and less negative than about the printed information. Multimedia information has the potential to increase the quality of engagement and information exchange when seeking consent for research.

E-Atlas of Health in Selangor, Malaysia

Electronic atlas (e-atlas) of health is a multimedia website system, containing a compilation of health and disease maps. Selangor is one of the states with a high rate of physical development and having major disease burdens. Empowering local communities on wellbeing education through a digital network is one of the effective ways to reduce the incidence of diseases and health issues. This paper aimed to design and develop an e-atlas of health according to the local user requirement. A collection of hardcopy health maps from student’s Cartography projects, Adobe Illustrator and ArcGIS Online were utilized to create the system according to the waterfall model. The finding of the user requirement has indicated the existing websites has general information on health but the e-atlas elements of health are not fully established-particularly in Selangor. Thus, this proposed interactive mapping system has demonstrated several sub-menus regarding the health aspects such as waterborne diseases, vector-borne disease, health care facilities, and others. General info on the Selangor wellbeing features with good cartographic elements have been also incorporated. Eighty-five per cent of respondents gave the positives feedback, but they are hoping that this community services system could be applied practically in the future.

DigiKnowIt News: Educating youth about pediatric clinical trials using an interactive, multimedia educational website.

Pediatric clinical trials allow for the testing of appropriate and effective treatments for children. However, some challenges exist with recruitment. This study examined the effectiveness of DigiKnowIt News, an interactive, multimedia website (which includes activities, videos, and comic books) designed to educate children about clinical trials. A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2018 with 91 participants (M age = 10.92years; SD = 2.06). Participants were randomly assigned to intervention or wait-list control groups and completed questionnaires at pretest and posttest (1week later) about their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs about clinical trials, and self-efficacy for participating in clinical trials. Participants in the intervention group received access to DigiKnowIt News between pretest and posttest and completed a satisfaction questionnaire at posttest. At the end of the study, participants in the wait-list control group were offered the option to use the website and complete a satisfaction questionnaire. At posttest, participants in the intervention group, compared to participants in the wait-list control group, had more knowledge about clinical trials and more reported confidence for participating in clinical trials. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with DigiKnowIt News. The findings suggest that an educational website can improve factors related to increasing rates of participation in clinical trials.

Catholics & Cultures as an Act of Improvisation: A Response

This essay responds to seven articles published in the same issue of the Journal of Global Catholicism on the use of Catholics & Cultures, a multimedia website, as a pedagogical resource for college classrooms. The site is deliberately presented in a fashion that undermines notions of center and periphery and presents Catholicism from a lay, lived-religion perspective as the multicultural faith that it is, minimizing reference to religious typologies. Particular attention is given to how to navigate tensions around theorizing, categorizing and sorting information for cross-cultural comparison. Given scholars’ current state of knowledge, writing about and teaching about global Catholicism requires willingness to grapple with material that is inevitably new to us, and that we can only improvisationally categorize and theorize about.

Social protest photography and public history: "Whose streets? Our streets!": New York City, 1980-2000.

"Whose streets? Our streets!," a traveling exhibition that debuted at the Bronx Documentary Center in January 2017, brings together the work of 37 independent photographers who covered protests in New York City between 1980 and 2000. Collectively, they chronicle social justice struggles related to race relations and police brutality; war and the environment; HIV/AIDS and queer activism; abortion rights, feminism, and the culture wars; and housing, education, and labor. The exhibition and companion multimedia website demonstrate the role that photographers, activists, and ordinary people play in enacting democratic social change. They also highlight social protest photography as an important source for doing public history.

Impact of a multimedia website with patient experiences of multiple sclerosis (PExMS) on immunotherapy decision-making: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial in a mixed-methods design

BackgroundA variety of management options (e.g. immunotherapies, lifestyle interventions, and rehabilitation) are available for people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Besides coping with the diagnosis, people with MS (pwMS) have to make complex decisions such as deciding about immunotherapies. In addition to factual information, reports of patient experiences (PEx) may support patients in decision-making. The added value of PEx in decision-making is not clear, and controlled studies are rare. Therefore, systematic methods are necessary to develop and analyse PEx. As there are no evaluated PEx for MS in Germany, we are currently creating a website presenting PEx structured according to topics and illustrated by video, audio, and text files. We aim to determine the feasibility of an intervention using PEx and evaluate whether PEx may help pwMS in their immunotherapy decision-making processes as a supplement to evidence-based information.MethodsThis project will follow the Medical Research Council framework for development and evaluation of complex interventions. After the development of a website with PEx, a randomised controlled pilot trial (pilot RCT) will be conducted in 2–3 MS centres, clinics, or rehabilitation centres including 55 pwMS and accompanied by a process evaluation. Patients with a RRMS diagnosis considering immunotherapy are eligible. The primary outcome is decision self-efficacy. Secondary outcomes include preparation for decision-making, decisional conflict, risk knowledge, confidence in active participation, affective forecasting, social support, and self-reported impact of eHealth on its users. Participants will be randomly assigned either to (i) an intervention group with 4 weeks access to an evidence-based patient information resource and the PExMS-website as an adjunct or to (ii) the control group with access to evidence-based information alone. A 6-member advisory panel involving representatives of pwMS, researchers, and neurologists, who accompany the whole project, will mentor this pilot RCT.DiscussionThe intervention was developed with systematic methods, created with active patient involvement and in critical appraisal by an expert advisory panel. The study is innovative as it contributes to the controversial evidence on the use of PEx in the context of evidence-based patient information.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04236544

Psychosocial needs of adolescents and young adults with eczema: A secondary analysis of qualitative data to inform a behaviour change intervention

This study aimed to explore adolescents and young adults' experiences of symptoms related to their eczema in order to determine their psychosocial needs. A secondary qualitative analysis of two data sources collected through semi-structured interviews for two different projects, SKINS project and Eczema Care Online project. In total, there were 28 transcripts with adolescents and young adults with eczema having a mean age of 19.5years available to analyse. Interview data were collected from face-to-face interviews that were recorded and transcribed. Inductive thematic analysis explored data about symptoms and organized according to psychosocial needs. Adolescents and young adults with eczema experience both visible symptoms (such as flaky, dry, and inflamed skin) and invisible symptoms (such as itch, pain, exhaustion, and mental distress) that elicit different psychosocial needs. These psychosocial needs are to (i) be understood; (ii) be perceived as normal; and (iii) receive emotional support. Interviewees described a struggle between wanting their peers and family to understand but take their eczema seriously whilst not wanting to stand out and instead to be perceived as 'normal', which they would define as being perceived as other adolescents. This has implications on behaviours, such as seeking support, avoiding going out, hiding their skin, as well as emotional implications, such as social isolation and feeling anxious and low. Having a better understanding of young people's experiences and psychosocial needs will provide a framework on how best to support adolescents and young adults when managing symptoms related to eczema. Statement of contribution What is already known on this subject? Eczema has a high impact on children and is considered a burden by children and adults with eczema. However, it is unclear what impact eczema has on adolescents and young adults. Adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions are known to be vulnerable to negative psychosocial outcomes but psychosocial needs and how to best support this age group with eczema are unknown What does this add? Three psychosocial needs were developed from evaluating the impact of visible and invisible symptoms of eczema: The need to feel understood (mostly reflective of invisible symptoms such as itch and pain and visible symptoms such as scratching). The need to be perceived as 'normal': visible symptoms such as flaky, inflamed skin make them stand out in comparison with their peers and a need emerged to blend in. The need for emotional support: adolescents and young adults searched for this from their health care providers, from shared experiences and from online resources. Adolescents and young adults with eczema appear to feel ambivalent about wishing the impact of the condition to be acknowledged whilst wishing the condition to be invisible to others. This ambivalence had further impact on feeling self-conscious, seeking support, and dealing with unsolicited advice.

Supporting children and young people when making decisions about joining clinical trials: qualitative study to inform multimedia website development

ObjectivesTo understand stakeholders’ views regarding the content and design of paediatric clinical trial multimedia websites. To describe how this knowledge informed the development of the multimedia websites.DesignQualitative study comprising two...

Informed Consent for Patients Undergoing Transsphenoidal Excision of Pituitary Adenoma: Development and Evaluation of a Procedure-Specific Online Educational Resource

The results of recent high-profile delict and medical negligence cases now require doctors to take "reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risks involved in any recommended treatment, and of any reasonable alternative or variant treatments." Thus, we report the development and evaluation of a procedure-specific online educational resource to support the informed consent process for patients undergoing transsphenoidal excision of pituitary adenomas. An interactive educational multimedia website was developed using a combination of text, images, and videos. A telephone questionnaire was devised to evaluate patients' understanding that included 15 true/false questions. The questionnaire was administered to separate cohorts of patients on the waiting list for transsphenoidal excision of a pituitary adenoma before and after introduction of the website. The patients were also asked to rate the extent to which they found the website easy to understand and useful on a 10-point Likert scale. Data were compared using the χ2 and Mann-Whitney U test, with P < 0.05 considered to indicate statistical significance. Ten consecutive patients completed the questionnaire before the introduction of the website and nine afterward. The median questionnaire scores were significantly greater after the introduction of the website (14 of 15 vs. 12 of 15; P= 0.002), and all patients subjectively found the website easy to understand and useful (10 of 10 in both groups). An interactive educational multimedia website appears to be a helpful adjunct to the informed consent process for patients undergoing transsphenoidal excision of a pituitary adenoma.

Popularity of Online Multimedia Educational Resources in Neurosurgery: Insights from The Neurosurgical Atlas Project

The Neurosurgical Atlas is a popular world-wide multimedia website in neurosurgery with informative chapters and videos to promote excellence and safety in neurosurgical techniques. Here, we present our analysis of the viewing data of this website. This is intended to describe how online neurosurgical resources are being utilized by today's neurosurgical community. We hope this will be a useful guide for neurosurgeons interested in online multimedia education. We analyzed Google Analytics and Vimeo data collected from The Neurosurgical Atlas between June 2016 and August 2017, which tracked user demographics, geographical location, and the videos watched. Views were also analyzed categorically by dividing videos into 6 neurosurgical topics and into basic and advanced levels as per their surgical complexity. During the study period, there were 246,259 website visits and 143,868 video plays. The most frequent age group seen was 25 to 34 (44%), followed by 35 to 44 (24%), and 71% of visitors were male. Most website visits were from the United States (29.52%) followed by Brazil (6.43%). There was a steady increase in website visits and video plays over time, with multiple peaks corresponding to promotional email updates. The 6 neurosurgical topics were all similarly popular in video plays, with the general neurosurgical topics being slightly preferred. Similarly, basic and advanced topics were both viewed frequently, with a slight preference for the basic topics. Our study presents the first piece of evidence demonstrating the feasibility and popularity of a free online resource in neurosurgical education. Our experience highlights the growing demand for free-access online chapters, anatomical illustrations, and operative videos. This initiative should not stop with The Neurosurgical Atlas; other surgeons should feel encouraged to employ similar methods to disseminate and advance surgical education.

Identity and Survival in the Multimedia Art of Street-Involved Youth

Academic and popular discourses alike tend to focus on street-involved youth as exemplars of the homeless problem or to overlook them entirely. This discussion aims to move beyond these frameworks, which often fail to acknowledge the talents and agency of street-involved young people, and to engage instead with the unique knowledges that are embedded within their creative endeavours. To do this, this essay places a media analysis of Another Slice, a multimedia website produced on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, in conversation with interviews with content producers as a means of illuminating the meaningful ways that youth at Directions Youth Services employ multimedia to assert identity, build community, challenge misconceptions about street life, and reimagine physical and social spaces.

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Reviewed by: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Joshua A. Bell Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 352 pp. Halfway through The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing remarks that "Mushroom tracks are elusive and enigmatic; following them takes me on a wild ride—trespassing every boundary" (137). Tsing's latest exploration of what is now a trilogy on the intimate entanglements of capitalism is both a wild ride and a boundary blurring ethnography. The Mushrooms at the End of the World picks up on themes developed earlier by Tsing in her work about the Meratus Dayak's understandings of their histories of engagement with outsiders (Tsing 1993), and her examination of the messy encounters of capitalism on resource frontiers (Tsing 2005). Asking "How might capitalism look without assuming progress?" (5), Tsing dives deep into the disturbed soils of her many sites of inquiry to follow the "mosaic of open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life" (4) of matsutake mushrooms. This Japanese delicacy, Tsing argues, is a good guide to the world we currently live in because of matsutake's "willingness to emerge in blasted landscapes [which] allows us to explore the ruin that has become our collective home" (3). The matsutake shows the "possibilities of coexistence within environmental disturbance" (4) as well as "the cracks in the global political economy" (4) and "reopen our imaginations" (5). Taking the destructive wake of the much-discussed and debated Anthropocene head on, this book on its surface is a "follow-the-thing" ethnography that follows the matsutake across various domains and through time (Mintz 1985, Appadurai 1986, Marcus 1995). In this sense it contributes to what is now an established ethnographic genre (see for example West 2012, Paxson 2012, Ferry 2013). However, in reading The [End Page 277] Mushrooms at the End of the World it quickly becomes apparent that Tsing pushes this genre by telling the "rush of stories" (37) that help constitute the matsutake's assemblages, which bind human and nonhuman together. Tsing takes her readers on what is at times a dizzying ride through time and space to tease out connections between political economy, ecology, hitory, and multispecies interactions. I have yet to read an ethnography that is as ambitious in terms of its scale and scope. The book draws on long-term fieldwork conducted during matsutake seasons between 2004 and 2011 and is multi-sited with fieldwork in Canada, China, Finland, Japan, and the United States, as well as interviews in Denmark, Sweden, and Turkey. The book emerges from a unique collaboration that needs to be mentioned as it serves as an interesting model for others to consider: the Matsutake Worlds Research Group (Choy et al. 2009).1 In this book, Tsing provides a guide to the global narrative of matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), as well as the collectives' approach to the multispecies collaborations that these mushrooms entail. For those who feel that Tsing sacrifices too much ethnographic detail in order to tell the narratives of varying scales, two forthcoming ethnographies by Matsutake Worlds collaborators promise greater depth: Michael Hathaway on the global trade of Yunnan around matsutake and Shiho Satuska on the science of Japanese matsutake. A multi-media website (www.matsutakeworlds.org), and a film, The Last Season (2014), by Sara Dosa also add further depth to this work. The basic story of matsutake is as follows. Surfacing as a delicacy in Japanese literary culture in the 8th century, matsutake exist in a symbiotic relationship with red pine trees that are able to make use of anthropogenic transformations of the environment. While becoming a central facet of Japanese life, ecologically matsutake was also intimately linked to Japan's deforestation from the Edo period to the early 20th century. However, with the rise of fossil fuels and the decline of forest use for firewood and charcoal, the forest became dominated by broadleaf trees, and pine trees and matsutake declined. By the mid-1970s, the cultural value of matsutake as bribes and gifts...

Identity and Survival in the Multimedia Art of Street-Involved Youth

Academic and popular discourses alike tend to focus on street-involved youth as exemplars of the homeless problem or to overlook them entirely. This discussion aims to move beyond these frameworks, which often fail to acknowledge the talents and agency of street-involved young people, and to engage instead with the unique knowledges that are embedded within their creative endeavours. To do this, this essay places a media analysis of Another Slice , a multimedia website produced on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, in conversation with interviews with content producers as a means of illuminating the meaningful ways that youth at Directions Youth Services employ multimedia to assert identity, build community, challenge misconceptions about street life, and reimagine physical and social spaces.

Training for caring complex health needs in the community: the impact of the synergy between top and bottom

The Ministry of Health (MH) of Catalonia promotes the formal implementation of a new model of integrated care, comprehensive and person-centred, from a community and population-based approach, and primarily addressed to those who have social or health complex needs. All systematic focus groups conducted by MH about implementing strategies emphasize continuing education as a key element of success, especially when it is carried out in a massive manner and it’s approachable to all the professional profiles related to public integrative policies. Moreover, the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (CAMFiC) has a long tradition in an online learning problem-based program called CAAPS (Course Self-related in Primary Health Care) in which, from pre-established learning objectives, several scenarios based on significant community clinical cases are developed, chosen because of their prevalence or difficulty. In CAAPS, family physicians with the support of experts from other disciplines produce a series of e-textbooks and monographs that gather these scenarios, and compile the evidence and best practices related with. Finally, after reading the books, additional material to assess the progress of learning is provided to learners. In this context, the MH and CAPPS’ editorial committee agreed the publication of two books about caring flail, chronic complex and advanced patients, according to the Catalan governmental model of integrated care. This material has been prepared in 2014 by three family physicians, with the co-operation of 18 expert reviewers, from several specialties and professions, from social and health services. The books were accompanied by several additional educational tools: - Training of trainers in every health care centre, transferring material to carry out standardized formative sessions - Multimedia website where trainers can access to supplemental pedagogic material - Open access to CAPPS notebooks funded by the Ministry of Health for people not subscribed to formal on-line version. - Supportive website to CAPPS-based learning where tutors answer students questions. This training package has been widely spread, addressing it to all professional profiles working at the community level (family physicians, community nurses, case managers and social workers). At present, the results of this educational action are: - People formally subscribed to the CAAPS 1005 registered. Notebook 1: 330 exams done; 313 approved. Notebook 2: 252 exams done; 250 approved - Session of Training of Trainers: 305 students with a degree of satisfaction with the activity average of 4.5 out of 5 - Sessions at health centres, perform up to 31 January, 2016, 96 carried out, 11 scheduled - Access to the web material support: 1248 different people have accessed the website and 324 have viewed the videos. - Enrolled in the Ministry funded version, to perform from November 2015 to February 2016: 3132 registered (1851 Barcelona, 377 Girona, 193 Lleida, 431 Tarragona) 556 men and 2576 women, 1594 nurses, 1344 doctors, 65 social workers. In terms of coverage, these results imply that this training proposal reaches 100% of territory and community teams, virtually 100% of clinical leaders and healthcare mentors and that 25% of primary care professionals have been exposed to it, allowing a) sharing terminology and a common vision on integrated care for complex needs, b) knowing the conceptual basis of this model of care and c) providing tools for managing most common clinical situations that arise in day-to-day care of complex patients. Currently we are designing the method to assess the impact of this educational strategy on professional performance. Conclusions : Training is a key element for the dissemination of integrated care on chronic complex conditions. The co-operation between government and scientific societies can be crucial to achieve high impacts in educational coverage. This synergistic action multiplies results and facilitates training to all territories and all stakeholders.

A Multimedia Child Developmental Screening Checklist: Design and Validation.

BackgroundIdentifying disability early in life confers long-term benefits for children. The Taipei City Child Development Screening tool, second version (Taipei II) provides checklists for 13 child age groups from 4 months to 6 years. However, the usability of a text-based screening tool largely depends on the literacy level and logical reasoning ability of the caregivers, as well as language barriers caused by increasing numbers of immigrants.ObjectiveThe objectives of this study were to (1) design and develop a Web-based multimedia version of the current Taipei II developmental screening tool, and (2) investigate the measurement equivalence of this multimedia version to the original paper-based version.MethodsTo develop the multimedia version of Taipei II, a team of experts created illustrations, translations, and dubbing of the original checklists. The developmental screening test was administered to a total of 390 primary caregivers of children aged between 4 months and 6 years.ResultsPsychometric testing revealed excellent agreement between the paper and multimedia versions of Taipei II. Good to excellent reliabilities were demonstrated for all age groups for both the cross-mode similarity (mode intraclass correlation range 0.85-0.96) and the test-retest reliability (r=.93). Regarding the usability, the mean score was 4.80 (SD 0.03), indicating that users were satisfied with their multimedia website experience.ConclusionsThe multimedia tool produced essentially equivalent results to the paper-based tool. In addition, it had numerous advantages, such as it can facilitate active participation and promote early screening of target populations.ClinicalTrialClinicaltrials.gov NCT02359591; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02359591 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6l21mmdNn)

PERAN PEREMPUAN DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN MELALUI MULTIMEDIA

This study aims to unify ideas or thoughts that will be developed in the movement of Indonesian women academics to women's empowerment program, particularly through the media.The approach will be used in this study is to model the quantitative and qualitative approach in social policy research. The population in this study were all female academics in the city of Medan with the characteristics of women who are actively teaching professor at the PTN and PTS in the shade Kopertis region I. The results showed that women academics agreed to unify their thoughts or ideas through the movement of women academics in an effort to empower women. Also it is known that during this activity was limited to female academics in the field activities with NGOs and for the contribution of ideas or thoughts are said to be less or very low. Then the media deemed appropriate to be used as a vessel to channel the ideas and thoughts about women are in the form of a multimedia website, in this case made gap-indonesia.org domain.