Thursday, August 11, 2016

Factors That Are Considered When Patient Education Handouts Are Drafted

By Cynthia Baker


Awareness creation is one of the tools adopted in the health sector to emancipate people on how they can avoid contacting epidemic diseases. Patient education handouts are nowadays used to support healthy decision making amongst patients. These handouts are available in print form and soft copy. One can download them in soft copy from the Internet. In most health facilities, these brochures are handed out to people. They usually address the following health topics.

Education passed across in these leaflets is provided by competent healthcare experts. Before being published, the information is first reviewed. As a general rule, before a medical practitioner uses this awareness creation tool, he or she should have undertaken training from a recognized medicine school. Some of the essential components of this tool are skill building and fostering responsibility amongst sick people. Ailing individuals need to know when, how and why they are required to make health lifestyle changes.

With an increase in number of epidemic diseases, medical practitioners are trying to emancipate people on how to avoid contacting and spreading these diseases. In addition, people suffering from these epidemic diseases are emancipated through education handouts on how they can avoid contacting the infections in future. This measure has reduced the rate at which epidemic infections spread on a worldwide scale.

Signs, symptoms, diagnostic measures and treatment options for diseases are also addressed in the leaflets. For a particular disease to be fully treated, its signs must be evaluated. Along these lines, medical experts usually emancipate sick individuals on the symptoms and diagnostic measures for various diseases through education leaflets.

Patients also need information on how to feed properly when they are suffering from a particular disease. This information can be disseminated through leaflets issued by medical specialists in hospitals. Most doctors sensitize on the need for ailing individuals to consume foods rich in vitamins and proteins. These foods help in boosting the body immunity against diseases as well as developing body tissues. For example, diabetic individuals are cautioned against consuming meals with high sugar content.

The handouts are written to shed some light on how sick individuals should be handled when receiving nursing care at home. Close relatives of ailing people determine how they recover especially when receiving nursing care from home. For instance, the leaflets shed some light on how and when diabetic people should receive insulin shots in order to lower the sugar levels in their bloodstreams.

The leaflets are also drafted based on the physical, emotional or mental impairments of a sick individual. For example, if an individual has impaired hearing capabilities, visual materials are used. Medical practitioners usually expect sick people to explain some of the new things they have learnt. An individual can respond by nodding the head as a way of acknowledging all that he or she has learnt when in a hospital.

The leaflets are drafted in a language that suits the learning techniques of ailing people. Medical experts use diverse methodologies when passing information through these leaflets. For example, if an individual understands information by listening to sounds, watching or reading, medical experts take note of these needs when drafting the leaflets.




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