Health Education in a Clinic.
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چکیده
INCREASING awareness has been developing in recent years among physicians, and particularly among general practitioners, of the importance of including health education within the framework of their daily clinical practices. Accompanying this awareness has been a growing appreciation both of the need for eliciting the perceptions and motivations of patients towards their illnesses, and of establishing more meaningful lines of communication with them in order to ensure maximal therapeutic effect. Furthermore, a number of authors (Steuart, 1961; Chesler, 1960) have emphasized the importance of including the subject of Health Education in the curriculum of both postgraduate and undergraduate medical studies in order to provide physicians with the basis necessary to implement the educational aspects of their work. Increasing interest has therefore been focused by a number of investigators on an analysis of the nature and quality of general practice (Logan, 1953; Peterson et al., 1956), and the need to take into account popular ' medical' beliefs and practices has also been stressed by a number of authors (Cravioto, 1960; Pridan, 1962). Within the same area of interest have been the numerous investigations which have tried to ascertain the extent to which the patient's perception and assessment of his disease accords with the doctor's evaluation of the patient's illness. Examples of such studies can be found in Seligmann et al. (1957), Reader et al. (1957), and Pratt et al. (1957), who found a marked discrepancy between doctors' expectations of what they thought patients should know about their own diseases and what patients in fact did know about them. They also found a positive expression of interest on the part of the patients for receiving more knowledge
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the College of General Practitioners
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1964