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Development of a Computer-Aided Clinical Patient Education System to Provide Appropriate Individual Nursing Care for Psychiatric Patients

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A lot of researches have proven that health education can help patients to maintain and improve their health. And it also shortens the time staying in hospital to save medication resource. Because the patients are willing to get healthcare knowledge to enhance the ability of self-care, they pay more attention to the health education. In Taiwan, the clinical nurses play an important role in patient education, and the health education take most time in their daily work. Such work includes the collection, production and delivery of education materials. To generate the correct and customized health education material is the key of success of patient education. In this study, we established a computer-aided health education contents generating system for psychiatric patients by integrating the databases for disease, medicine and nursing knowledge to assist nurse generating the customized health education document suitable for different patients. This system was evaluated by clinical nurses in usability and feasibility. This system is helpful for nurse to carry out the clinical health education to patients and further to encourage patient to pay attention to self-health.

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The study was supported by grants from Taipei Medical University-Wang Fang Hospital (96TMU-WFH-22) and National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC97-2627-B-038-001).

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  1. Department of Nursing, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Kuan-Jui Tseng

  2. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University- Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Tsan-Hon Liou

  3. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University- Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Tsan-Hon Liou

  4. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, 250, Wusing St., Sinyi District, Taipei, 110, Taiwan

    Kuan-Jui Tseng & Hung-Wen Chiu

  5. Taipei Medical University-Cancer Excellency of Clinical Research, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hung-Wen Chiu

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K.-J. Tseng and T.H. Liou had equal contributions to this work.

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Tseng, KJ., Liou, TH. & Chiu, HW. Development of a Computer-Aided Clinical Patient Education System to Provide Appropriate Individual Nursing Care for Psychiatric Patients. J Med Syst 36, 1373–1379 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9599-4

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Keywords

  • Health education
  • Nursing informatics
  • Computer-aided system
  • Patient education system
  • Individual healthcare