SCI-U: e-learning for patient education in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

AbstractBackground/objectivesTo develop an online patient education resource for use in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.ParticipantsThe development process involved more than 100 subject-matter experts (SMEs) (rehabilitation professionals and consumers) from across Canada. Preliminary evaluation was conducted with 25 end-users.MethodsAn iterative development process was coordinated by a project team; SMEs (including patients) developed the content in working groups using wiki-based tools. Multiple rounds of feedback based on early prototypes helped improve the courses during development.ResultsFive courses were created, each featuring more than 45 minutes of video content and hundreds of media assets. Preliminary evaluation results indicate that users were satisfied by the courses and perceived them to be effective.ConclusionsThis is an effective process for developing multimedia patient education resources; the involvement of patients in all parts of the process was particularly helpful. Future work wi...