Online education to inform the elderly about age-related alcohol risks

在线教育让老年人了解与年龄相关的酒精风险

• 批准号: 8452571
• 负责人: Arlene Fink
• 金额: $ 14.9万
• 依托单位: ARLENE FINK ASSOCIATES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-10 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8452571
• 关键词: Accounting; Adopted; Adult; Age; Aging; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Alcohols; American; Area; Automobile Driving; Burn injury; Caring; Cessation of life; Communities; Computers; Consumption; Counseling; Data; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Effectiveness; Elderly; Evaluation; Exercise; Feedback; Goals; Group Practice; Guidelines; Habits; Health; Health Status; Health behavior; Healthcare; Hypertension; Individual; Instruction; Internet; Interview; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Marketing; Measures; Medical; Mental Depression; Metabolism; Modeling; Online Systems; Outcome; Participant; Patient Education; Patients; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Population; Prevalence; Preventive; Primary Care Physician; Primary Health Care; Production; Program Effectiveness; Public Health; Quality of life; Randomized; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Sampling; Self Efficacy; Site; Social Health Services; Specific qualifier value; Tablets; Testing; Time; Traffic accidents; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Writing; age related; alcohol related problem; alcohol risk; base; binge drinking; compliance behavior; design; drinking; evidence base; experience; falls; functional status; health belief; health literacy; healthy aging; improved; interest; meetings; payment; programs; prototype; public health relevance; satisfaction; shared decision making; usability; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol-related problems in older Americans are a growing public health concern. About half of all older adults drink alcohol, and many drink above recommended limits. In the elderly, changes in the body's ability to metabolize alcohol mean that even relatively low levels of consumption can interact adversely with older adults' declining health, increased medication-use and impaired functional status. However, there is no available evidence-based online alcohol education programs designed to meet the specific needs of older adults even though the population is aging, and more people are drinking into older age. To make up for this deficit, we propose to develop Wise Drinking as We Age, an online education program that will incorporate the best available knowledge about alcohol and aging and models of health behavior and adult learning. This goal is consistent with NIAAA's specified area of interest for SBIR's calling for the "development and evaluation of educational materials designed to inform the elderly about specific age-related risks for alcohol problems." Our study has four milestones. The first is the production of a written curriculum that includes instructiona objectives, the educational content needed to meet the objectives, graphics, interactive practice exercises and feedback, and links to other online resources. The prototype education will be drafted and reviewed by educators, alcohol researchers, and geriatricians and experts in patient education. Content will focus on alcohol's impact on health and quality of life, accounting for factors such as medical problems, medication-use, functional status, drinking and driving, and binge drinking. Instruction will be guided by well- established models of adult learning, the Health Belief Model, and AHRQ's health literacy guidelines for public websites. The second study milestone is the production of a functioning website, which will be pilot tested among older non-treatment seeking adults, the third milestone. The final product will consist of quantitative data on the feasibility and effectiveness of the education. 50 older current drinkers will be randomly assigned to Wise Drinking as We Age, while 50 will be assigned to the NIH Senior Health's online alcohol program. Participants will be measured at baseline and 1 month later to compare their alcohol use, knowledge, and self-efficacy.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国老年人中与酒精相关的问题是一个日益严重的公共卫生问题。大约一半的老年人饮酒，许多人的饮酒量超过了建议的限度。对于老年人来说，身体代谢酒精能力的变化意味着即使相对较低的饮酒量也会与老年人健康状况下降、药物使用增加和功能状态受损产生不利影响。然而，尽管人口正在老龄化，并且越来越多的人进入老年，但仍然没有旨在满足老年人特定需求的基于证据的在线酒精教育计划。为了弥补这一缺陷，我们建议开发“随着年龄的增长而明智饮酒”，这是一项在线教育计划，其中将纳入有关酒精和衰老的最佳现有知识以及健康行为和成人学习的模型。这一目标与 NIAAA 为 SBIR 指定的感兴趣领域一致，即“开发和评估旨在告知老年人与酒精问题相关的特定年龄风险的教育材料”。我们的研究有四个里程碑。第一个是制作书面课程，其中包括教学目标、实现目标所需的教育内容、图形、交互式练习和反馈以及其他在线资源的链接。教育原型将由教育工作者、酒精研究人员、老年病学家和患者教育专家起草和审查。内容将重点关注酒精对健康和生活质量的影响，考虑医疗问题、药物使用、功能状态、酒后驾驶以及酗酒等因素。教学将以完善的成人学习模型、健康信念模型和 AHRQ 公共网站健康素养指南为指导。第二个研究里程碑是建立一个功能正常的网站，该网站将在未寻求治疗的老年人中进行试点测试，这是第三个里程碑。最终产品将包含有关教育可行性和有效性的定量数据。 50 名当前饮酒者将被随机分配到 Wise Drinking as We Ages，而 50 名将被分配到 NIH Senior Health 的在线酒精计划。我们将在基线和 1 个月后对参与者进行测量，以比较他们的饮酒情况、知识和自我效能。