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A Comparison of Two Educational Interventions for the Cognitive Empowerment of Ambulatory Orthopaedic Surgery Patients by Katja Heikkinen; Leino-Kilpi Helena; Nummela Taina; Kaljonen Anne; Salanterä Sanna is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the cognitive empowerment of ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients when using internet-based education (experiment) in contrast to face to face education conducted by a nurse (control). ## Methods: Elective ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients were randomized to either an experiment group (n = 72) receiving internet-based education, or to a control group (n = 75) receiving face-to-face education with a nurse. the data were collected at three different time points: before the preoperative education session, after preoperative education and 2 weeks after the operation. three structured instruments were used: the knowledge test, the sufficiency of knowledge and the orthopaedic patient knowledge instrument. ## Results: Patients in both groups showed improvement in their knowledge. however, patients who received internet-based education improved their knowledge level significantly more in the ethical (p = 0.005) and functional (p = 0.023) dimensions and also in total (p = 0.033) than those patients who underwent face-to-face education with a nurse. in addition, patients in the experiment group had higher scores in sufficiency of kn
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- Author
- Katja Heikkinen; Leino-Kilpi Helena; Nummela Taina; Kaljonen Anne; Salanterä Sanna
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0738-3991)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)