title: Evaluating the treatment integrity of a continuing education program.
abstract: Effective Patient Teaching (EPT), a health profession continuing education course, improves educators' teaching skills. The authors, through this dissemination study, aimed to learn whether, through a train-the-trainers approach, others could teach Effective Patient Teaching as its developers intended--that is, the assessment of what has been called "treatment integrity." Trainers' overall fidelity within and between three test sites was good, supporting Effective Patient Teaching's generalizability and transportability.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Pichert
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Stetson
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation