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The Art of Patient Education

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In modern healthcare, patient education has been considered as part of the continuum of the service provided and is an essential additive intervention in the care of people with rheumatic diseases. Patient education goes beyond just providing information: targeting behaviour, beliefs and attitudes. It may be provided both formally and informally. In either case it should be planned and goal oriented, based on an assessment and agreement with the patient. Interventions should adopt psycho-educational approach, applying theoretical models rather than educational and counselling methods. The goal of patient education is self-management, i.e. the patient is empowered and able to take responsibility for the day-to-day management of the illness. Patients are considered as partners in the whole education process. This chapter will discuss the differences between patient and health education, and then it will expand to discuss the art and science in patient education and techniques of delivering patient education with examples of patient education programmes. The chapter will conclude by discussing the potential role of patients as teacher in the medical education setting and the use of technology to enhance patient education.

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