Patient education: A component of health education |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Neuroscience and Pathophysiology Unit, Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria;2. Department of Veterinary Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria;3. Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria;4. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria;1. Department of Neurosurgery, Sichuan University, West China Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, PR China;2. Department of Neurosurgery, Sichuan Provincial People''s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, PR China;1. Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;2. Vascular Surgery Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;1. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Department of Surgery, Divisions of Vascular & Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;3. Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;4. Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota Physicians Heart Practice, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;5. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA;6. Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA;1. School of Sport and Exercise, Massey University, Private Bag 756, Wellington 6140, New Zealand;2. School of Kinesiology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA;3. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Penn State Medical School, Hummelstown, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Because health education is aimed at influencing behavior capable of affecting health and disease, patient education is an important constituent of health education. Patient education should demonstrably lead to increased self-assurance, reduced anxiety, better insight into one's ailments, more knowledge about the effects of medicines administered, greater self-acceptance after surgery, and improved social contacts among the chronically ill. It well deserves a place in primary health care. Patient education is not widely practiced in the Netherlands. Small-scale experiments are needed to establish effective modes of intervention. |
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