A study on the effectiveness of a patient manual in increasing knowledge of CVD patients-caretakers regarding basic preventive care

Date of Completion

1994

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Keywords

Cardiovascular Diseases, Preventive Medicine, Health Education

Abstract

The availability of stroke manual can serve as a readily available written & visual aid that will help improve techniques of educating the stroke patients/caretakers on methods of reducing or preventing occurence of secondary complications. This manual can be given out to patients. Caretakers to constantly remind them of what they must do even after discharge. Unfortunately, most centers here in the Philippines do not have such manual at their disposal. This led the authors to be develop a patient manual with the objective of ascertaining its effectiveness in improving stroke patient/caretakers knowledge in the prevention of secondary complications. The effectiveness of the manual was only based its immediate effect due to time constraint. Descriptive study was used as the research design. The study was conducted in 4 affiliation centers where the authors took turns. Total of 53 subjects were included in the study. The data were collected by means of giving a pre-test prior to distribution of the manual then a post-test was given in the subsequent PT visit. All questions were taken from the information found in the manual and collected data were analyzed critically. Using the t-test, results showed that the pre-test. However, it could only be considered significant if it met the pret-test standard: the respondents should at least score 90% in the post-test. Unfortunately, only 13 out of 53 respondents qualified which consisted of 4 high school graduates and 9 college graduates. This suggest that t manual imposes some difficulty to respondents with low level of education. This should be revised so that it would be effective regardless of educational attainment. In addition, the authors failed to include questions about some areas in stroke rehabilitation. It should be added in the questionnaires to assess if respondents learned from these respective areas.

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