Comments on: What We Talk About When We Talk About Video http://www.infoforhealth.org/blog/?p=271 A conversation on the latest family planning and reproductive health information. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:38:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Anna http://www.infoforhealth.org/blog/?p=271#comment-1849 Anna Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:54:32 +0000 http://www.infoforhealth.org/blog/?p=271#comment-1849 Thank you so much for the interview and the thought provoking ideas. As you mentioned, video has the potential to reach many different kinds of people, with fewer barriers than printed material. I hope that it finds wider use not only in your organization, but many others. Thank you so much for the interview and the thought provoking ideas. As you mentioned, video has the potential to reach many different kinds of people, with fewer barriers than printed material. I hope that it finds wider use not only in your organization, but many others.

]]> By: Ward http://www.infoforhealth.org/blog/?p=271#comment-1880 Ward Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:09:15 +0000 http://www.infoforhealth.org/blog/?p=271#comment-1880 At the INFO Project and the Center for Communication Programs we also have used video for evaluation research. In particular, Dr. Young-Mi Kim and her colleagues have taped family planning counseling sessions to evaluate the Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers. The Decision-Making Tool is a communication aid, in the form of a flipchart, that help a family planning client, with the help of a counselor, to reach decisions about contraceptive methods and to learn how to use them. In Mexico and Nicaragua Dr. Kim and colleagues taped family planning providers working with different clients. They compared counseling sessions before and after training and practice with the Tool. They used a rigorous methodology to track the discussion and evaluate how the client and provider interact as well as what each of them says. To summarize, the studies found that the tool did improve the quality of counseling. You can find reports on this research—both how it was conducted and its findings--in the Guttmacher Institute’s journal International Family Planning Perspectives at http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3116205.html and also in the journal Patient Education and Counseling at http://tinyurl.com/yukku2. The INFO Project and the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research developed the Decision-Making Tool. It has been adapted and translated in many countries. You can see the tool on the WHO Web site at http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/dmt/index.htm. At the INFO Project and the Center for Communication Programs we also have used video for evaluation research. In particular, Dr. Young-Mi Kim and her colleagues have taped family planning counseling sessions to evaluate the Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers. The Decision-Making Tool is a communication aid, in the form of a flipchart, that help a family planning client, with the help of a counselor, to reach decisions about contraceptive methods and to learn how to use them.

In Mexico and Nicaragua Dr. Kim and colleagues taped family planning providers working with different clients. They compared counseling sessions before and after training and practice with the Tool. They used a rigorous methodology to track the discussion and evaluate how the client and provider interact as well as what each of them says.

To summarize, the studies found that the tool did improve the quality of counseling. You can find reports on this research—both how it was conducted and its findings–in the Guttmacher Institute’s journal International Family Planning Perspectives at http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3116205.html and also in the journal Patient Education and Counseling at http://tinyurl.com/yukku2.

The INFO Project and the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research developed the Decision-Making Tool. It has been adapted and translated in many countries. You can see the tool on the WHO Web site at http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/dmt/index.htm.

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