Development of an e-learning program on evidence-based-medicine for lay adult persons

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26750321
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	OKABAYASHI Satoe 京都大学, 環境安全保健機構, 助教 (70526805)
Research Collaborator	KITAZAWA Kyoko NAKAYAMA Takeo KAWAMURA Takashi
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	EBM / eラーニング / 健康情報 / 市民 / ＥＢＭ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We have newly developed an intelligible e-learning program about Evidence-based-medicine (EBM) for lay persons. We (1) reviewed the presently available learning materials and extracted the elements of EBM; (2) graded the elements considering the usefulness for lay persons’ self-decision making in healthcare; (3) obtained the comments about the grading from the four panelists with different backgrounds; (4) discussed and fixed the key elements; (5) constructed an e-learning program; (6) provided our new program to the potential users and held focus-group interviews; and (7) revised the program based on the comments in the interviews. We fixed the 18 elements which are mainly about critical appraisal for scientific information for the program. Most participants showed a great interest in the program and indicated its usefulness for their daily life. Comments of the interviewees were reflected to the revised version of the program.