Abstract
Health education can be effective with audiovisual aids. However, oral communications often fail because they are misunderstood and/or forgotten. Therefore, information leaflets could be considered as a way of supplementing health education. Number of guidelines for producing written information have been produced over the last few years; these include advise on planning, writing and design but also emphasize the importance of obtaining evidence-based information, and involving both medical personnel, patient groups and members of public. The evaluation of information leaflet, however an essential part of this process is and is often neglected or inadequate. The aim of this review is to describe the steps involved in the production and evaluation of information leaflet. The present review has been attempted to describe methods, which can be employed to prepare and evaluate written patient information leaflet.
Highlights
Health education can be effective with audiovisual aids
One longstanding strategy in health education is to improve knowledge has been the use of written patient information leaflets
If the leaflet is well designed and clearly worded, this maximizes the number of people who can use the information, including older children and adolescents, those with poor literacy skills and those with some degree of sight loss
Summary
Health education can be effective with audiovisual aids. They help to simplify unfamiliar concepts; bring about understanding where words fail; reinforce learning by appealing to more than one sense, and provide a dynamic way of avoiding monotony [1]. Educational materials should be designed to focus attention to provide new knowledge, to facilitate interpersonal and group discussion and to reinforce or clarify prior knowledge and behavior. There is strong evidence that patient’s overall satisfaction with the clinician will increases if they are supplied with, and comprehend, information and clinical advice [2]. Studies confirm that providing clear information improves satisfaction, and retention of the imparted information and increased compliance [2]. Information leaflets could be considered as a way of supplementing health education. Leaflets have a number of advantages; [2]
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