conclusions nurses and physicians’ educational roles should be examined in the authors’ healthcare system. further surveys are needed to find and assess individual and organizational approaches to improve physicians’ and nurses’ educational performances. results there were 231 participants (men: 55.3%). of them, 58.9% of the patients were satisfied with educational performance of nurses and 50....

introduction: patient education is influenced by cultural factors. this study aims to find out the role of culture in patient education. methods: a qualitative study was conducted on 23 iranian nurses. inclusion criteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. interviews were taped, transcribed and ana...

conclusions the study showed that preparation package was effective in decreasing sbp and dbp, as well as heart rate. therefore, using multimodal comprehensive preparation packages, such as the package used in the present report, is suggested. results from the total number of 66 patients, the 63.3% were male and married. no significant differences were observed between the mean of sbp and dbp a...

BACKGROUND Self-management is crucial to diabetes care and providing expert-vetted content for answering patients' questions is crucial in facilitating patient self-management. OBJECTIVE The aim is to investigate the use of information retrieval techniques in recommending patient education materials for diabetic questions of patients. METHODS We compared two retrieval algorithms, one based ...

Background: Patient education is taken into account as one of the key components of comprehensive care as well as one of the significant nursing functions in order to increase community health. In this respect, education materials and written texts can improve patient information up to 50% and consequently meet patient satisfaction. Readability is considered as an integral concept in patient ed...

To cope with possible stressful events after colorectal cancer surgery, patients need to be prepared for the early postoperative phase. Complementary written information is often used, but requires improvement. The overall aim for this thesis was to describe patient reported stressful events and coping strategies and with a person-centred approach characterize existing and co-design new patient...

Background: Hundreds of patient education materials i.e. pamphlets are annually published in healthcare systems following their design, correction, and revision. Aim: to design and evaluate patient education pamphlets based on readability indexes and their comparison with literacy level in society. Method: The average literacy level among 500 patients admitted to two training hospitals in Bojnu...

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....

Patient education is used to engage patients in their own health care and is relevant in most clinical situations. Shared decision making (SDM) is used to engage patients when a choice needs to be made about a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure and the medical evidence does not indicate which choice is best. American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) clinical practice g...