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Monday, 17 October 2016

The Significant Reasons For Providing Patient Education Handouts

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By Christopher Moore


Patient education is a type of process where patients and their caregivers are given information concerning their lifestyles and also for improving their health status. The one who conducts this are the health professionals. These are health professionals who already have taken appropriate training and education about patient communication.

This kind of education will require the elements for building responsibilities and skills. It would be very important that a patient will know when, why, and how they are going to have a lifestyle change. The health care team or group members of each patient should be involved in this. The patient education handouts would be very important for knowing its values.

One important part for them to respond to medical care is to provide them with the handouts to inform them about the health problems, the description of medical treatments, and also to promote healthy behaviors. But developing the handout may be difficult. This is because many caregivers may do not have the time and training for writing and designing it.

Even journalists and skilled writers have difficulties on providing information and instructions that all patients could understand. And even those writing contents which are already correct grammatically are not enough. So it would be very necessary for writers to possess the skills of creativity, sensitivity, and flexibility when talking about their illustrations, language, and graphic designs so all patients can understand those handouts.

The contents of handout is usually consists of information and descriptions of the diseases and advices from caregivers. These contents are said to be a spoken communication extension. Since reasons of understanding how are readers giving significance to contents, how contents are maintained and created, and on how these behaviors are influencing the people around are increasing, the effectiveness of having these handouts will surely be possible.

The following are three important reasons of handouts. First, this serves as medical care extension and it also affects the quality care. The improvement of life quality and patients health is the main goal of this. This handout should also help in improving a persons behavior by altering their choices, skills, values, and knowledge concerning health.

Second, some spoken messages may quickly be forgotten and that is why the information of the handout can be very useful. There is a big possibility that the person speaking may forgot about a certain topic and it may also be reinterpreted. So to avoid this, providing a handout is very useful since it can reduce in remembering instructions and guessing the meanings.

Third, patients may be able to have their opinions on caregivers through handouts. This will serve as a communication channel of messages and meta messages. Messages are instructions for patients and the meta messages are significant reasons of messages and of patients to the caregivers. Both are important for marketing the institution.

To summarize the values of patient education, it improves the understanding of medical conditions, disease, diagnosis, or disability, and the methods and means of managing the different aspects of medical conditions. It also improves the self advocacy about the decision of whether to be dependent or independent with the medical providers. And lastly, it can decrease the number of visits and phone calls and it will lower the risk of having a malpractice on some expectations.




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