Adolescent Alcohol Use is a new channel to be developed for the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Demonstration Project. This kiosk channel will explore the affects of under aged drinking through interactive video vignettes and a series of other innovative segments.

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1. Develop a health channel for the kiosk that focuses on teen alcohol use.
2. Add the channel to all of the kiosks through the state of Michigan.
   

Residents throughout the State of Michigan.

The HMRL will develop, as part of the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Demonstration Project, a channel that contains information about alcohol use geared toward teenagers. The channel will include:

• series of quizzes that test knowledge of the affects of alcohol
• content with accurate medical and legal information
• information about potential consequences caused by impaired judgment

An innovative section using interactive video vignettes will allow teens to see the potential results of various actions to problem situations such as drinking and driving, pressure to drink, or a friend with a drinking problem.

Users will also be able to calculate personal blood alcohol concentrations based on gender, weight, number and type of drinks, and food consumption.

Focus groups, intercept interviews, and usability testing were completed for all of the channels before final dissemination into the kiosks. Feedback was reviewed and improvements, clarifications, and updates were implemented into each channel as appropriate.

After dissemination, findings for all channels provided in the kiosk include:

• Pilot assessments of all kiosk users showed that over 400,000 individuals use the kiosks each year.
• When comparing users with the population exposed to the kiosks, we find that kiosk users tend to be younger (over 50% of users are under 21 years of age). Users do not, however, differ from nonusers by ethnic or gender status.
• Because of the ethnic compositions where the kiosks are placed, over 50% of kiosk users are nonwhite. Satisfaction levels with the kiosks do not differ by ethnic status or by gender.
• Kiosk users report that the information provided is useful and easy to understand.
• Users rate information from the kiosk as equally as or more trustworthy than information received from physicians or television news shows.
• The vast majority of users enjoyed using the HOV modules and thought they were easy to use.

The Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Project is one example of how interactive multimedia technology can be made available to a broader spectrum of the public. The data suggests that interactive multimedia would be used by the public most in need of preventive services - those who do not have ready access to computers.

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Strecher, V. J. (1999). Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Demonstration Project: Annual Report. Prepared for the Michigan Department of Community Health.

Strecher, V. J. (1998). Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Demonstration Project: Annual Report. Prepared for the Michigan Department of Community Health.