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Impact of Patient Education on The Knowledge of Urolithiasis Patients
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SHARON MARY STANLY, BLESSY SUSAN GEORGE, NIHLA NASEER, UDAY VENKAT MATETI, RAJEEV T.P
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Objective: To development and validation of patient information leaflet (PIL) and assessment of their impact in improving the knowledge of patients with urolithiasis.
Methodology: A Quasi-experimental pre and post study design (without a control group) was used to carry out the study in 70 urolithiasis patients. The knowledge assessment questionnaire was prepared with respect to the PILs. The prepared questionnaire was provided to the patients to assess their baseline knowledge before administering the PILs and to assess the knowledge improvement after administering the PILs (Patient was asked to read the PIL for at least 20 minutes). The user opinion of the PIL was also obtained from the patients.
Results: The results of the study showed that the post educational user knowledge scores significantly increased from the baseline, i.e., from 44.57% to 88.29% (p 0.000). More than 80% of the patients rated the PILs as good.
Conclusion: The current study revealed that the knowledge of the patients improved by 43.7% after administration of the PILs. Thus PILs have been found to be beneficial in enhancing the knowledge of patients with urolithiasis.
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Urolithiasis, PILs, knowledge, patient education
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP1.212
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