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

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...

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 ...

Comparing the Effect of Patient-Centered and Family-Centered Education on Quality of life and HBA1C Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

 Background and purpose: Low quality of life and complications of high blood sugar are among the problems of patients with diabetes. This study aimed to compare the effect of patient-centered education and family-centered education on quality of life and HBA1C in patients with type 2 diabetes. Materials and methods: A clinical trial was performed in diabetic patients in Rafsanjan Diabetes Clin...

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...

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