Hello, everyone -  I'm resending this as I gather sending things via 'reply'
function don't always work, which is what I did first time. My sincere
apologies for repeating it to anyone who did get this first time round.

I've been lurking on this list for a few weeks and thought it time to
introduce myself, as I wish to request some information if people have the
time to provide it.

I am Peter Murray, a Lecturer in the School of Health & Social Welfare at
The Open University, UK. Before that I was a nurse tutor and before that a
coronary care staff nurse; I have a long-standing interest in health
promotion/education, particularly re: cardiac/coronary issues.

I am currently involved with a literature/research review of the use and
effects of 'multimedia' in health promotion, with an emphasis on its use in
a distance/open learning context. By multimedia, is meant everything from
CD-ROMs , thro' interactive video, thro' satellite broadcasting, to virtual
reality and use of the Internet/Web. A tall order maybe, but our initial
searches seem to indicate there's not a lot of literature on these things.
We are particularly interested in any work that has been done to demonstrate
outcomes, effectiveness etc of use of these media, both with health
professionals and the general public.

If anyone knows of any work done in these areas, and can provide references,
or if anyone is themselves involved in work that is currently unpublished,
I'd like to hear from you. Needless to say, we are not sitting on our hands
and asking others to do our searching for us; we have a researcher who is
doing a lot of Web searching, and searching databases for such published
literature, but there may also be materials from conferences, other 'grey
literature', or things people have done that are just not published.

If anyone can help, please contact me at my email address as below.

Many thanks for any help anyone can give.

Also:
>Jiri Rada Senior Lecturer - Department of Public Health
Could you provide me directly with your email address (was unable to resolve
it from the list headers) as I may be able to help with some of the
information you requested, and would be better to chat personally rather
than through the list.


Best wishes, Peter Murray
Lecturer, The Open University, UK
Associate Editor, Computers in Nursing
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/peterm/diff01.htm