Patient education

A Radiographer explains an x-ray to a coal miner participating in screening. Patient education can include explaining the results of diagnostic tests.

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients and their caregivers that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.[1]

Education may be provided by any Healthcare Professional who has undertaken appropriate training education, education on Patient communication and education is usually included in the Healthcare Professional's training.

Health education is also a tool used by managed care plans, and may include both general preventive education or health promotion and disease or condition specific education.[2]

Important elements of patient education are skill building and responsibility: patients need to know when, how, and why they need to make a lifestyle change. Group effort is equally important: each member of the patient’s health care team needs to be involved.

The value of patient education can be summarized as follows:

The competencies of a health educator include the following:[5]

There are many areas where patient education can improve the outcomes of treatment.

See also

Footnotes

  1. http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/GUIDECPS/text/iv_edu.txt
  2. Peter R. Koongstvedt, "The Managed Health Care Handbook," Fourth Edition, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2001, page 788 ISBN 0-8342-1726-0
  3. Krames Patient Education
  4. Patient Education Institute, Research evidence
  5. Bastable, Susan B. (2011). Health Professionals as Educator. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Barlett Learning, LLC. p. 6.
  6. Pantera, E.; Pourtier-Piotte, C.; Bensoussan, L.; Coudeyre, E. "Patient education after amputation: Systematic review and experts' opinions". Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. 57 (3): 143–158. doi:10.1016/j.rehab.2014.02.001.
  7. Zangi, Heidi A.; Ndosi, Mwidimi; Adams, Jo; Andersen, Lena; Bode, Christina; Boström, Carina; Eijk-Hustings, Yvonne van; Gossec, Laure; Korandová, Jana (2015-06-01). "EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 74 (6): 954–962. doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206807. ISSN 1468-2060. PMID 25735643.
  8. Brosseau, Lucie; Rahman, Prinon; Poitras, Stéphane; Toupin-April, Karine; Paterson, Gail; Smith, Christine; King, Judy; Casimiro, Lynn; Angelis, Gino De. "A Systematic Critical Appraisal of Non-Pharmacological Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II". PLoS ONE. 9 (5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095369. PMC 4026323Freely accessible. PMID 24840205.

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