title: Use of web-based patient education sessions on psychiatric wards.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the use of web-based patient education sessions in the psychiatric inpatient care.
  
  
  METHODS
  The qualitative and quantitative data was collected from 93 patients' evaluation reports in two psychiatric hospitals in Finland completed by 83 nurses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The web-education included six patient education sessions which were used over a period lasting between 1 and 70 days and took 10-360 min per patient. Out of 508 sessions, 464 had no interruptions or disturbances, 37 sessions had disturbances and seven sessions were interrupted. Three fourths of the sessions were used successfully. Factors associated with use were patients' vocational education level, mental status, diagnoses, number of nurses involved and hospital.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is important to invest effort in web-based patient education during patients' hospitalization and to use it even with patients suffering from serious mental health disorders. This is meant to provide more alternatives in nursing.
authors.affiliation: Finnish Post-Graduate School in Nursing Science and University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science, Finland. minna.anttila@utu.fi
authors.forename: Minna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anttila
authors.forename: Maritta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Välimäki
authors.forename: Heli
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hätönen
authors.forename: Tiina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Luukkaala
authors.forename: Minna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaila
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015995:Prevalence; D055815:Young Adult