Development of a Guide to Recommended Print Materials for Diabetes Patient Education

Development of a guide to recommended print materials for diabetes patient education.

There are hundreds of current booklets, pamphlets, and manuals available for diabetes patient education. Everyone, it seems, is writing them from large pharmaceutical companies and publishing houses to small rural hospitals. A national review of those materials has led to the development of an annotated resource booklet entitled "Recommended Print Materials for Diabetes Patient Education, 1984....

Development of a guide to recommended audiovisual materials on diabetes, 1983.

Assessing the Readability of Patient Education Materials about Diabetes Available in Shiraz Health Centers

Introduction: Patient education materials are one of the important factors to improve the health literacy of patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and are employed in order to develop self-care skills. These materials will meet such objectives if they are understandable by their audiences. Hence, the aim of present study was to evaluate the readability of educational resources published ...

Evaluation of diabetes and cardiovascular disease print patient education materials for use with low-health literate populations.

OBJECTIVE Populations with the lowest literacy and health literacy in the U.S. are also among those disproportionately burdened by diabetes and its complications. Yet, suitability of publicly available diabetes and cardiovascular (CVD) patient education materials for these patients is not clear. We evaluated selected American Diabetes Association (ADA) and American Heart Association (AHA) print...

Differences in perceived difficulty in print and online patient education materials.

CONTEXT Written patient education materials frequently exceed the reading ability of the general public. Patients are often intimidated by the task of reading patient education materials, perceiving the materials’ difficulty levels as prohibitive, even when they do not exceed the patients’ reading abilities. It is unclear how the delivery mechanism--print or a computer screen--affects a patient...