'Afro-Sister' Program

This project is to design develop and test a culturally sensitive computer- interactive program forstyle, health, and dietary practices of African American women. The "Afro-SISTER" Program is the acrAfro-Sensitive Information System To Evaluate Risk" (SISTER) of nutrition-related diseases. The progprompted on a touch-sensitive computer screen. It will display culturally relevant activities, ethnilifestyle and medical practices that will allow users to model their own behavior by recording (on tweekly, or monthly activities in a non-intrusive manner. Still pictures and video clips will be accodescriptions. With this graphic and audio interface, even those with difficulty seeing or reading caexpert panel of Afro-American women, who have current experience in community and social services, hpractices of adolescent girls and women, will assist in the conceptual development of the program anapproach to the formative evaluation process to ensure cultural sensitivity to subgroups of African-Prototyping and pilot testing of a program segment will be completed in Phase I.