patient education (effectiveness & challenges)

7/30/2019 Patient Education (Effectiveness & Challenges)

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L.W GREEN:

- Any Combination Of Learning

Experiences.

- To Facilitate Voluntary BehaviorConducive To Health.


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TANNAHIL:

- Is A Communication Activity

- Aimed At Enhancing Positive Health

- Preventing Ill-health In Individuals &Groups

- Influencing The Beliefs, Attitudes, &Behavior


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is a process of planned change

a voluntary change

focus on:

KNOWLEDGE increase it

modifies it

corrects it

ATTITUDE change

PRACTICE desirable health-related practice

SKILLS learn necessary skills to adopt new healthbehaviour


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good health a valued asset

promote the development & properuse of the health service

encourage individual to gain goodhealth by their own action & efforts

take preventive measures to avoiddiseases & deformities.


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rapid changing of Malaysians lifestyles changing pattern of diseases

costs of medical care

non-compliance

development of patient education

social support from spouse / family members

the rights of the patients


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General Objectives:

To improve and maintain the health status of patientthrough effective management of their illness & tocontribute towards creating a healthy population.

Specific Objectives:

to provide patients & their families with relevantknowledge, attitude & skills.

to render educational assistance & support them inachieving an optimum level of health.

to contribute towards the promotion of a healthypopulation through the dissemination of general health

information.


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Patients Patients family & close

relativesPublic


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1. How do I get people to come?

2. Cultural diversity

3. Does the material contain the information thepatient wants / needs?

4. Can the patient understand the material aspresented?

5. Helping people who are hard to help


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How Do I Get People To

Come?

Marketing to health professionals

- ownership of the program

- cant get doctor to refer patient

- place poster, announcement flyers etc.


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Marketing to the public

- keep the name simple but descriptive

e.g : Asthma Self Management

- people pay?

- convenient time

- length of the program / module- place?


Come?


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Using Media

- local newspaper pay?

- local radio Miri F.M / Sarawak F.M


Come?


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Cultural diversity

make more creative changes in the program

The success of your program is determined

not only by its cultural relevance & thecommunitys acceptance but by your

organizations commitment to serving a

culturally diverse population.

(Gonzalez & Lorig, 2001)


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Does the material contain the

information the patient needs?

Consider:

- the material contains the information that

the patient wants?- the material contains the information that

the patient needs?

- the patient understands & uses the material

as presented?


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need assessment (e.g stigma, language)

the information is not too inclusive or

exclusive confusing ideal & real circumstances (e.g forget a dose)

do not ask Do you understand?

Does the material contain the

information the patient needs?


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Helping People Who Are

Hard To Help Strong, silent types

- write on the paper

- brainstorm- unthreatened / safe

- a sleeper? > 25% of class is sleeping?


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Talkers

- sometimes are useful & relevant

- how to cut / stop?- side talkers?

- special talker? inappropriate / destructive

- talk at once? rearrange seating


Hard To Help


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Antagonistic

- dont argue

Yes, buts

- dont waste time

- help others who are more ready to change /act


Hard To Help


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Attention Seekers

a) the Whiners (million problems)

manage get all in their problems/storiesb) my disease is worst

dont let them tell about disease

- no one wins & everyone loses

Special problem people

- the ists (e.g racists, sexists etc)


Hard To Help


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