The World Wide Web as a Patient Education Resource for Occupational Therapy Personnel

@article{citeulike:275857, abstract = {Occupational therapists educate patients and clients to equip them to become active participants in their own care and to provide them with specific knowledge, skills and training. To make informed decisions about their health and well-being, patients need high quality information. The World Wide Web is growing as a source of health information. For this information source to be effective, its content must be accurate and the way it is written must be appropriate to facilitate patients' understanding. The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the World Wide Web as a resource for occupational therapists when educating patients. It reviews the literature regarding the benefits and potential pitfalls of using the World Wide Web for patient education and outlines some guidelines that will help occupational therapists, students and support workers to provide patients with or direct them to sources of reliable web-based health information. Key words: computers, World Wide Web, WWW, patient education}, author = {Sharry, R. and Mckenna, K. }, citeulike-article-id = {275857}, issn = {0308-0226}, journal = {The British Journal of Occupational Therapy}, keywords = {computer, education, lit-review, occupational-therapy, www}, number = {10}, pages = {509--516}, posted-at = {2005-08-06 13:54:46}, priority = {2}, title = {The World Wide Web as a Patient Education Resource for Occupational Therapy Personnel}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cot/bjot/2001/00000064/00000010/art00006}, volume = {64}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:275857 L3 - citeulike-article-id:275857 N2 - Occupational therapists educate patients and clients to equip them to become active participants in their own care and to provide them with specific knowledge, skills and training. To make informed decisions about their health and well-being, patients need high quality information. The World Wide Web is growing as a source of health information. For this information source to be effective, its content must be accurate and the way it is written must be appropriate to facilitate patients' understanding. The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the World Wide Web as a resource for occupational therapists when educating patients. It reviews the literature regarding the benefits and potential pitfalls of using the World Wide Web for patient education and outlines some guidelines that will help occupational therapists, students and support workers to provide patients with or direct them to sources of reliable web-based health information. Key words: computers, World Wide Web, WWW, patient education IS - 10 JF - The British Journal of Occupational Therapy SN - 0308-0226 EP - 516 TI - The World Wide Web as a Patient Education Resource for Occupational Therapy Personnel VL - 64 SP - 509 KW - computer KW - education KW - lit-review KW - occupational-therapy KW - www AU - Sharry, R AU - Mckenna, K PY - 2001/// UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cot/bjot/2001/00000064/00000010/art00006 ER -