title: How to structure an empowering patient education program for internet.
abstract: There is a lot of health related information in the Internet. However a little is known about the quality of that. The purpose of this study is to analyze the structure and the applicability of the empowering internet based ambulatory surgery patients' education program. The education material was created and tested for this study. The structure is evaluated with structure analysis and applicability with AWStats-counter program and a survey. The evaluation of the program's structure and applicability, gives feedback about the usability of the program and helps to create criteria for a useable structure of the patients' education program.
authors.affiliation: University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science and Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland. katheik@utu.fi
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Heikkinen
authors.forename: Sanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salanterä
authors.forename: Ari
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hiltunen
authors.forename: Miika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jääskeläinen
authors.forename: Tiina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leppänen
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leino-Kilpi
mesh_terms: D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D020377:Self Efficacy