Table 2.

Aim 3 approaches.

Definition	Purpose	Approach	Data collection	Expected outcomes
Web-based health information navigation and comprehension (step 1)	To assess Web-based health information search ability, acquisition, and patterns	Use of Tobii video/online use recording software; 4 clinical vignettes with questions to prompt Web-based search	Navigation patterns of Deaf individuals; preferences of health websites, including search engines (n=15 Deaf and n=15 hearing for comparison); scoring on questions related to vignettes	Assess Web-based health information search ability of Deaf individuals (unknown); determine if Deaf individuals’ health literacy determines the quality of the navigation and comprehension of the information (unknown); generate areas of weaknesses and strengths for interventions to focus (unknown)
Elicitation interviews (step 2)	To explain and expand the understanding of the findings demonstrated in aims 1 and 2	Use of elicitation interviews about video recordings of the participants and their Web-based searches	Explore how and why participants decided to use the websites they chose, including the types of queries and what aspects of the Web-based information was useful to them	Assess how Deaf individuals visualize and learn Web-based health information (unknown); determine the preferences of health information tools and dissemination (unknown) and understand why they have those preferences (unknown)