title: Evaluation of an instruction programme on diabetes diet by means of a teaching machine.
abstract: In 119 patients with diabetes, student nurses, social workers, dietitians and medical students a pretest was carried out with multiple-choice questions on the subject of diabetes diet. The group was then exposed to programmed diet instruction with a teaching machine. There was a significant learning effect as measured by the score differences with identical and analogue post-tests. Programmed self-teaching with feed back by multiple-choice questions seems to be an efficient method of instruction of basic facts of nutrition for diabetics thus enabling the physician to spend more time on the patient's personal problems.
mesh_terms: D003927:Diet, Diabetic; D004046:Dietetics / Q000193:education*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D013557:Switzerland