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Grant Number: 1R43AA014306-01 PI Name: HAYES-ROTH, BARBARA PI Email: bhr@extempo.com PI Title: Project Title: Brief Intervention Training with Adaptive Expert Agents Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Brief interventions in primary care settings can reduce the high risks and costs of alcohol abuse. However, health care providers lack skills for effective intervention. Training these skills requires individual coaching and practice, but live workshops and standardized patients are expensive, un-scalable, and impractical. Therefore, the proposed project is intended to investigate an innovative online approach using Expert Agent technology. A Virtual Coach motivates learners and directs them to strategically selected learning objects (e.g., texts, graphics, videos) that describe, justify, and demonstrate target skills. Virtual Role Players give learners authentic practice with a representative sample of patients. The Coach provides personalized feedback on role-play practice, guiding each learner along an individually optimized path to mastery of intervention skills. If successful, the approach would deliver substantial return on investment on training, including improvements in learner satisfaction, learning efficacy, scalability and reach, and cost-effectiveness. It would reduce individual and social costs of alcohol abuse. It also could be applied to training intervention skills for other health care objectives. In Phase 1, the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed approach will be evaluated for selected patient and provider populations. In Phase 2, we will evaluate the approach for a broader spectrum of healthcare providers and patient populations.
Thesaurus Terms:
alcoholism /alcohol abuse therapy, computer assisted instruction, computer simulation, counseling, educational resource design /development, medical education, primary care physician
alcoholism /alcohol abuse education, alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention, psychodrama
clinical research, human subject
Institution: EXTEMPO SYSTEMS, INC. 643 BAIR ISLAND RD, STE 302 REDWOOD CITY, CA 94063 Fiscal Year: 2003 Department: Project Start: 05-JUN-2003 Project End: 30-NOV-2003 ICD: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM IRG: ZRG1