Patient Education - Science topic

We hear often in the self-help world how important patient self-care education is. However, we don’t do it enough, and it’s because we don’t know how. I think we have a perception that there’s a right way to do patient self-care education in our hospitals. Why is patient self-care education so important?

There are patients who want to know not only whether their lab results are good or bad but also why some tests are more reliable than others. So, sometimes physicians are expected to explain intellectually challenging concepts such as test sensitivity and specificity. I'd be interested to hear from you some plain language definitions of these two concepts. These definitions may be useful not only in the context of face-to-face patient-physician relationship but also in the context of printed or electronic patient education materials. Thanks!

what's the differences between Psychoeducation and Patient Education ?

Hi,I have done some post doc research on an instrument I developed for my PhD. The research has not been published and is now really old as it was done in 2006. I had submitted it to Psychology and Health, Patient Education and Counselling, BMC Health Services Research and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, but it's been always rejected so far. The feedback made it stronger though - I still believe the data works out rather well (i.e. in line with the model) and the conclusions are ok, but probably more of interest to a particular niche group of people in my field.

Would you recommend I give up on the idea of publishing it in a peer reviewed journal or just keep going?  I put the article on my page for public review - let me know if you think it is worthwhile to keep pushing. If you think there is value, which journal do you think would take it and not charge me any money for processing it? Thank you for your time!

What should we investigate? Care spaces, biographies of health professionals ...

Health promotion in theory and in practice is two different notions, theoretical knowledge can be extracted from the may standard textbooks for the same, but that would be different approaches that can be utilized for imparting practical knowledge?

It is against the law in some states to provide care to close family members and many codes of physician ethics contain guidelines not to do so.  

Does anyone know of any empirical evidence whatsoever that physicians provide worse care to their relatives or are more likely to act unethically etc. in the care of their relatives than of other patients?

I'd like to help someone study this.

Nurses need to get in the habit of thinking about patient education as a way of providing nursing care . Even more important, they need to maximize the time they spend on patient education to obtain the best outcomes for their patients. But they often find it difficult to provide effective patient teaching in the current healthcare climate.Nurses should confirm that their teaching was understood and will be put into practice by patients. It depends on a good teaching method. What is the best method for patient education in nursing?

I've been trying to use the POSAS score for evaluation of burn scar reconstruction.  However, I find the Patient's part difficult to use.  The patients all seem to become a bit embarrassed in trying to put scores on their symptoms.  I'm left with the impression that they are all under-scoring their problems.  This might be ok statistically, since if everything is under-scored, then trends will still be valid, but has anyone else experienced this?  More to the point, has anyone overcome this problem??? 

Working on my Doctoral degree and I need an instrument to help assess patient readiness for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.  Preferably a survey or questionnaire.  

Hello and good day.

I am wondering whether it is possible to use the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict a "behavior" that may comprised of several constructs. 

For example, the behavior of "providing care to patients by a health care professional". This behavior may consists of several constructs such as (1) educating patients; (2) provide counseling; (3) provide monitoring; and (4) evaluation of health.

Kindly share your valuable knowledge

In ICU patients that are 65 years of age and older, what is the effect of patient teaching about Pennsylvania Order for Life Sustaining Treatment forms upon admission, in comparison to no teaching about POLST forms, on patient knowledge of end of life care?

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients and their caregivers that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.

But what is the best method for patient education?

Is it depended on the kind of disease or patient condition or culture?

Patients will participate in a therapeutic education program designed to educate them about their disease and self-management strategies.  I'd like to assess patient satisfaction with the blended program, particularly the online component.  Is there a validated questionnaire to do this?

Distance education is a generic term used to define the field of distance learning that is a mode of delivering education and instruction, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional setting such as a classroom. I think it may be useful for patient education. Do you agree with this idea?

Exists an a validate scale in spanish to measure patient activation for contribute in the patient education?

Specifically I want to know about how  characteristics, demographic, behavioral, health status etc of people who START a program predict their engagement with the program (sessions attended, number of posts, etc).   Many thanks

There is an increasing number of literature on the patients perspective respectively on patient reported outcomes in Haemophilia. But there are very few publications on patient education in this area. Does anyone know specific patient education tools / self-management education programs for adult patients with haemophilia?

is there even related titles ? 

Or any topic near to patient to other patients education in chronic disease?

(e.g. 15 minutes) ?

Designing modules for patient education online and would like evidence for using certain time durations given patients'/adult learners attention span, etc.

Have found data for students in academic settings but not for patient education.

I'm a designer/researcher looking into lay self-directed engagement with medical evidence (broadly construed); primarily, how design and technology can be employed to make it easier for evidence creators and translators to encode and present this information, and how they can be employed to facilitate tailored exploration and understanding of this evidence by laypeople ("patients").

I'd love opinions from the community of gaps, opportunities, or obvious needs in this area—whether from the patient perspective, provider perspective, or some other angle.

(Potential use cases for such tools include in patient decision aids for diagnostics and therapies, educational materials accessed outside of episodes of care or within them, etc. etc.)

any address or link or researches about patient to patient education in chronic patient .

Dear all,

kindly give your valuable suggestion as i am going to design patient Education Material with Holistic Approach. for HIV-AIDS Patients.

Thanks in Advance

Has anyone worked in the development of created patient education material and given it to patients and received feedback? Thanks! Embarking on a new project. siguides.com 

I'm trying to refine public health thesis ideas concerning nutrition education and dietary choices. I'm not sure where to focus. Maybe on the FDA changing the label? I'm also thinking about comparing groups of diabetic patients that receive nutritional counseling upon diagnosis without external referrals. I need help with ideas, but I'm looking for valid surveys in hopes that they might help guide me, so I can see what I may actually be able to measure.

health literacy?

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.

The role of the admitting physician in the process of hospital choice is much more important.

Adequate information on medicines enables patients to use them in an appropriate, safe and judicious way. Incomplete and inadequate information leads to serious health and economic consequences. Pharmacist can provide information either verbal or written. Information and counseling can be provided at the time of dispensing medicines. Information provided could be vital/essential viz. dose, frequency, duration, how medicines should be stored and supplementary information viz. side effects, concomitant medicines, purpose of each medicine, how to take each medicine- dose, time, frequency, before or after meals, specific precautions to be taken, what side effects can be expected, when to report to the doctor, what to do if a dose is missed and how to use devices: MDI, rotainhalers, etc.

I am looking for research related to how experienced users/patients' can contribute in educational programs for other patients, especially in mental health care. We are working on a training program for the user representatives ("expert patients") to prepare them for their effort in the program. So far, our experiences with this preparating course is very positive, but we are interested in more research on the topic, both quantitative and qualitative studies should be interesting.

As the large number of literatures and compartive studies stating that Pharmacists intervention in patient counseling had improved the patient care and QoL. But counseling the patient is a very important aspect in spectrum of healthcare and without knowing the subjects like psychology in course of the pharmacy curricula, how extend it can be helpful. Pharmacy can be better in Medication counseling that professional counsellors. Does the psychology an important subject to counsel the patient and please share your comments

What technology is being used to enhance communication with patients especially the adherence for treatment? Is there any way to know which companies are providing this kind of "product" and for what price?

I am doing a needs assessment for my clinical site, but I do not know how to proceed. The area is psychiatry and I want to assess the gap in patient care of teaching patients about their medication. I am searching for a good reference that teaches how to conduct a needs assessment for specific areas of patient care.