Luciana Laganá
Enhancing the Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Older Adults Toward Computers and the Internet: Results of a Pilot Study
California State University, Northridge
pilot study explored whether manualized training program could enhance older adults computer selfefficacy attitudes toward computers internet total 32 communitydwelling adults 65 years age older randomly assigned either experimental control group group consisting 8 women 8 men experimental group received 6 weeks training twohour oneonone sessions per week training administered control group upon completion posttest 6 weeks baseline assessment match procedures counts exception training administration results two anovas indicated participants within experimental group improved significantly computer selfefficacy p 001 attitudinal scores p 001 posttraining assessment improvements found control group