The effectiveness of health communication for implement multimedia e-book into large and small groups

Abstract

This study investigated the use of multimedia e-book by nursing interns to promote health communication. The characteristics of e-book were utilized to facilitate the health communication. It aimed to explore the outcomes of health communication in a group setting, for both large and small groups, in order to determine whether nursing interns could use e-book to enhance the outcome of health communication and strengthen their literacy of nursing informatics. Comparison was conducted. This study selected 32 junior nursing students that are about to enter their senior year from a national university of Taiwan. Questionnaire survey was based on Likert 5-point scale. The results showed that in either large or small group, outcome of nursing students’ personal communication by multimedia e-book and cultivation of personal nursing informatics literacy are significant. Field feedback is also positive. Hence, multimedia e-book can effectively assist with nursing students’ community health communication.