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Asthma Education: More Reading or More Viewing?

Author(s) -

Martyn R Partridge

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688607900605

Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , theophylline , audit , reading (process) , patient education , action (physics) , family medicine , pediatrics , physics , management , quantum mechanics , political science , law , economics

An audit of a hospital asthma clinic has revealed deficiencies in its educational activities. A significant minority of attending patients failed to understand the rationale behind their therapy and would take potentially inappropriate action when symptoms worsen. Many of those taking oral theophylline therapy were shown to be at risk of self-induced toxicity. Watching a videotape about the disease in the waiting room was found to be more popular than leaflets and books as a source of information.

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