Stroke Education in an Emergency Department Waiting Room: a Comparison of Methods

Abstract

Article type:Original Article

Educational technologies for health education on stroke: an integrative review

“…Nº Authors/year Objective of the Study Educational technology Target audience 1 Ishigami, et al (2016) (12) To evaluate the effectiveness of educational materials developed for children of elementary school in conveying information about stroke. Lecture, video and comics General population 2 Chan, et al (2015) (13) To evaluate the effectiveness of methods in health education on stroke.…”

“…Electronic games General population 12 Álvarez, et al (2011) (23) To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention for caregivers of stroke patients after hospital discharge. Lecture and flyers Caregivers 13 Holzemer EM, et al (2011) (24) To evaluate educational plans for controlling the risk factors and lifestyle changing in post-stroke patients. (25) To evaluate messages about stroke and long-term message retention.…”

Acute stroke patients’ knowledge of stroke at discharge in China: a cross‐sectional study

“…Community continuing education, often including audio‐visual programs, brochures and personal counseling, can also serve as an important complement to medical education. Moreover, some educational campaigns on stroke involving mass media, posters, flyers and public events may be helpful in learning and strengthening of the knowledge .…”

The use of augmented reality for patient and significant other stroke education: a feasibility study

“…If found to be beneficial, AR could be used to teach people with stroke and their significant others about the brain and mechanisms of stroke as part of a suite of stroke education resources. This is important because stroke education that involves multiple methods has been found to promote better information retention than one method alone (Chan et al, 2015).…”