Addressing challenges and needs in patient education targeting hardly reached patients with chronic diseases

Some patients do not benefit from participation in patient education due to reasons related to disease burden, literacy, and socioeconomic challenges. In this communication, we address more specifically both the challenges that these hardly reached patients face in relation to patient education prog...

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Autores principales: Varming, Annemarie Reinhardt, Torenholt, Rikke, Møller, Birgitte Lund, Vestergaard, Susanne, Engelund, Gitte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25729695
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.149324
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Sumario:Some patients do not benefit from participation in patient education due to reasons related to disease burden, literacy, and socioeconomic challenges. In this communication, we address more specifically both the challenges that these hardly reached patients face in relation to patient education programs and the challenges educators face when conducting patient education with hardly reached patients. We define principles for the format and content of dialogue tools to better support this patient group within the population of individuals with diabetes.

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