How do patients evaluate their education? - a comparison of two education methods.
A Randomized controlled trial was used to compare the ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' evaluations of Internet-based education (experiment) and face to face education with a nurse (control). Patients in the control group evaluated their education to meet their needs better than patients in the experiment group. Both groups evaluated the education quite positively.
Heikkinen
Katja
K
University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science, Turku, Finland. katja.heikkinen@utu.fi
Salanterä
Sanna
S
Leino-Kilpi
Helena
H
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*