Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Graduation Date
Summer 7-24-2009
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School Name
The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston
Advisory Committee
Dr. Sriram Iyengar
Abstract
This dissertation focuses on factors of multimedia job aids that modify workload, protocol adherence and clinical errors in community health workers. Literature shows that community health workers performance is not acceptable even with support of paper job aids. There are cognitive theories that try to explain reasons why the performance of community health workers is poor regardless of the access to paper based-job aid. Based on cognitive science and multimedia design theories an intervention was designed to compare alternative representations for the information contained on paper job aids and the capability of this new designed job aids to enhance community health workers performance. The dissertation is divided in 5 main parts: 1. identification and description of the problem, 2. a methodological approach to create and evaluate an intervention, 3. Presentation of results of the intervention evaluation, 4. Discussion of findings and 5. Conclusions
Recommended Citation
Florez-Arango, Jose F., "Workload and Performance Factors Associated With Multimedia Job Aids for Community Health Workers" (2009). Dissertations & Theses (Open Access). 22.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/uthshis_dissertations/22
Keywords
community health workers, multimedia job aids, workload, protocol adherence, clinical errors, CGV, guideviews