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Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners
OBJECTIVES: To (1) assess the hydration knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of doctors; (2) develop an evidence-based training package; and (3) evaluate the impact of the training package. DESIGN: Educational intervention with impact evaluation. SETTING: Cambridgeshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS: Genera...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5168638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27927656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012004 |
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author | McCotter, L Douglas, P Laur, C Gandy, J Fitzpatrick, L Rajput-Ray, M Ray, S |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To (1) assess the hydration knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of doctors; (2) develop an evidence-based training package; and (3) evaluate the impact of the training package. DESIGN: Educational intervention with impact evaluation. SETTING: Cambridgeshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS: General practitioners (GPs (primary care physicians)). INTERVENTIONS: Hydration and healthcare training. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Hydration KAP score before and immediately after the training session. RESULTS: Knowledge gaps of doctors identified before the teaching were the definition of dehydration, European Food Safety Authority water intake recommendations, water content of the human body and proportion of water from food and drink. A face-to-face teaching package was developed on findings from the KAP survey and literature search. 54 questionnaires were completed before and immediately after two training sessions with GPs. Following the training, total hydration KAP scores increased significantly (p<0.001; median (25th, 75th centiles); 32 (29, 34)). Attendees rated the session as excellent or good (90%) and reported the training was likely to influence their professional practice (100%). CONCLUSIONS: The training package will continue to be developed and adapted, with increased focus on follow-up strategies as well as integration into medical curricula and standards of practice. However, further research is required in the area of hydration care to allow policymakers to incorporate hydration awareness and care with greater precision in local and national policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-51686382016-12-22 Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners McCotter, L Douglas, P Laur, C Gandy, J Fitzpatrick, L Rajput-Ray, M Ray, S BMJ Open Medical Education and Training OBJECTIVES: To (1) assess the hydration knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of doctors; (2) develop an evidence-based training package; and (3) evaluate the impact of the training package. DESIGN: Educational intervention with impact evaluation. SETTING: Cambridgeshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS: General practitioners (GPs (primary care physicians)). INTERVENTIONS: Hydration and healthcare training. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Hydration KAP score before and immediately after the training session. RESULTS: Knowledge gaps of doctors identified before the teaching were the definition of dehydration, European Food Safety Authority water intake recommendations, water content of the human body and proportion of water from food and drink. A face-to-face teaching package was developed on findings from the KAP survey and literature search. 54 questionnaires were completed before and immediately after two training sessions with GPs. Following the training, total hydration KAP scores increased significantly (p<0.001; median (25th, 75th centiles); 32 (29, 34)). Attendees rated the session as excellent or good (90%) and reported the training was likely to influence their professional practice (100%). CONCLUSIONS: The training package will continue to be developed and adapted, with increased focus on follow-up strategies as well as integration into medical curricula and standards of practice. However, further research is required in the area of hydration care to allow policymakers to incorporate hydration awareness and care with greater precision in local and national policies. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5168638/ /pubmed/27927656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012004 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Medical Education and Training McCotter, L Douglas, P Laur, C Gandy, J Fitzpatrick, L Rajput-Ray, M Ray, S Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title | Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title_full | Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title_fullStr | Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title_full_unstemmed | Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title_short | Hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
title_sort | hydration education: developing, piloting and evaluating a hydration education package for general practitioners |
topic | Medical Education and Training |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5168638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27927656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012004 |
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