TY - JOUR
T1 - Online Educational Tool to Promote Bone Health in Cancer Survivors
AU - des Bordes, Jude K.A.
AU - Suarez-Almazor, Maria E.
AU - Volk, Robert J.
AU - Lu, Huifang
AU - Edwards, Beatrice
AU - Lopez-Olivo, Maria A.
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PY - 2017/10/3
Y1 - 2017/10/3
N2 - Osteoporosis burden is significant in cancer survivors. Websites providing health information abound, but their development, quality, and source of information remain unclear. Our aim was to use a systematic and transparent approach to create an educational website on bone health, and to evaluate its potential to improve knowledge, self-management, and awareness in prostate cancer (PCa) and breast cancer (BCa) survivors. Guided by the Health Belief Model, we created a website using international standards and evaluated it in 10 PCa and 10 BCa survivors with self-administered questionnaire before, after, and 1 month after navigating the website. The mean scores on the knowledge questionnaire at baseline, postintervention and 1 month were, respectively, 5.1 (±2.0), 6.9 (±2.5), and 6.7 (±2.4), p <.008, in PCa and 3.4 (±2.7), 7.6 (±3.0), and 6.5 (±3.8), p =.016, in BCa survivors. Acceptability ratings ranged from 60% to 100%. Participants found the website useful, helpful, and able to raise bone health awareness. Our website improved bone health knowledge in both PCa and BCa survivors. A systematic and transparent approach to the development of online educational websites could result in a tool capable of meeting the educational needs of targeted consumers. Cancer survivors could benefit from proven online educational tools.
AB - Osteoporosis burden is significant in cancer survivors. Websites providing health information abound, but their development, quality, and source of information remain unclear. Our aim was to use a systematic and transparent approach to create an educational website on bone health, and to evaluate its potential to improve knowledge, self-management, and awareness in prostate cancer (PCa) and breast cancer (BCa) survivors. Guided by the Health Belief Model, we created a website using international standards and evaluated it in 10 PCa and 10 BCa survivors with self-administered questionnaire before, after, and 1 month after navigating the website. The mean scores on the knowledge questionnaire at baseline, postintervention and 1 month were, respectively, 5.1 (±2.0), 6.9 (±2.5), and 6.7 (±2.4), p <.008, in PCa and 3.4 (±2.7), 7.6 (±3.0), and 6.5 (±3.8), p =.016, in BCa survivors. Acceptability ratings ranged from 60% to 100%. Participants found the website useful, helpful, and able to raise bone health awareness. Our website improved bone health knowledge in both PCa and BCa survivors. A systematic and transparent approach to the development of online educational websites could result in a tool capable of meeting the educational needs of targeted consumers. Cancer survivors could benefit from proven online educational tools.
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U2 - 10.1080/10810730.2017.1360415
DO - 10.1080/10810730.2017.1360415
M3 - Article
C2 - 28922062
AN - SCOPUS:85029600372
SN - 1081-0730
VL - 22
SP - 808
EP - 817
JO - Journal of Health Communication
JF - Journal of Health Communication
IS - 10
ER -