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Did you know that up to 20% to 25% of patients, of all ages, admit to borrowing or sharing prescription medication? Ellis and Mullan (2009) discussed medication sharing in recent study of data from Australia and the United States. They found the drugs most likely to be shared were...It’s not just patient...
A study from the University of California looked at the influence of diet family support on glucose outcome in Korean immigrants with type 2 diabetes. They checked participants’ A1C (glycosylated hemoglobin), body mass index, and waist-to-hip ratio. The study participants...Measuring Health Litera...
Personally, I don’t believe it is necessary to test a patient’s literacy level. If you individualize teaching to the learner, you are constantly evaluating understanding and modifying your teaching so it is understood. However, I know there are still a lot of health care providers...Increase Effectiveness ...
Research shows over and over again that patient education is most effective when it is individualized to the needs of the learner. When preparing an educational program, it is important to determine what you want to achieve and who you are trying to reach. A focus group is one of...Do you assume your pati...
A recent Internet survey of 502 adults in the US found that more than half the respondents intentionally skipped insulin occasionally, and 20% did not take their insulin regularly. Others may take their insulin, but in a dose smaller than needed for optimal glucose control. The study...Psychoeducation is cost...
One intervention available in the treatment of mental illness is psychoeducation – teaching patients and families about causes, signs and symptoms, treatments, when to get help, and who to call. Psychoeducation is often offered in multifamily groups, to help families recognize...Improving self-administ...
When was the last time you took care of a patient who was sick primarily because of an error in self-administration of medication? Too much warfarin. Too little antibiotic. It happens all the time. Many people don’t take medicines correctly, for a variety of reasons. Doses...Personalized patient ed...
Just giving patients information doesn’t make them better. The new information needs to be incorporated into their behaviors and become part of new self-care routines. They need to internalize that information, and apply it. One recent randomized controlled trial looked at how...Patients say they under...
Here’s another reason to evaluate understanding of your patient education through teach-back and return demonstration. If you ask a patient if he understands or if he has any questions, he may express confident comfort in his knowledge, but may actually not understand at all. In...Patient education teach...
So what teaching methods work best? A systematic review of patient education methods used with patients who had coronary artery bypass graft surgery found that teaching was most effective when: • the content was individualized, • given in a combination of media on an individual...RSS Sign up
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