organised and coordinated; (ii) Healthcare providers: what is an individually tailored TPE programme, why offer a patient TPE, how to make the offer, how to teach acquisition and maintenance of skills, how to manage and coordinate TPE, (iii) Healthcare providers, specialty societies: how to establish the procedures for implementing a TPE programme for a specific disease, and with whom. Part 2: A total of 35 quality objectives and 224 assessment criteria corresponding to 6 TPE domains were identified. Their readability, relevance, and usefulness were considered to be good by ≥80% of the peer reviewers; 10 objectives were redrafted and 3 deleted, 42 criteria were redrafted and 23 deleted. The final list comprised 32 objectives and 192 criteria. Discussion: The HAS guidelines for a structured approach to TPE do not propose a rigid framework but one that offers a wide choice of options. This means that the TPE programme can easily be tailored to the individual patient. Currently, two TPE programmes for chronic disease are being set up, one for cardiac insufficiency and one for obesity.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of obesity in adults. The study sample included 586 participants (body mass index ≥30 kg/m and age ≥18 years). A questionnaire consisting of 22 questions was developed by the researchers in accordance with the literature. A statistically significant difference was found between the description and perception of weight as a threat to health (χ = 57.65; P = .001). The perception of a threat to health was significantly higher in the group that described itself as overweight than other groups, and the group that described itself as having a normal weight had a significantly lower perception of a threat to health than other groups. The most important result of this investigation was that obesity was described by people but there was no awareness of the disease. It is suggested that future studies would increase people's awareness of obesity management.
This research was planned in order to analyze news items about nursing published in the media and to investigate how nursing is portrayed in publications in Turkey. News items related to nursing were accessed for the year 2006, by searching the online news archives with the keyword nursing. Data were collected on 8 characteristics. In total, 103 news items regarding nursing were collected from 7 daily newspapers and evaluated. It was concluded that news regarding nursing was poorly covered in terms of quantity and quality and that published articles gave a negative impression of nursing. Nor did the published articles reflect the scientific side of nursing.
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