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- Heidi Scharf Donovan, Sandra E Ward, Mi-Kyung Song, Susan M Heidrich, Sigridur Gunnarsdottir, and Christopher M Phillips.
- University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Department of Acute & Tertiary Care, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. donovanh@pitt.edu
- J Nurs Scholarsh. 2007 Jan 1;39(3):259-65.
PurposeTo provide an update on the representational approach to patient education.Organizing ConstructThe representational approach to patient education to guide a wide-range of educational interventions.MethodsFour intervention trials based on the representational approach are discussed: the representational intervention to decrease cancer pain (RIDcancerPain), patient-centered advance care planning (PC-ACP), an individualized representational intervention to improve symptom management (IRIS), and the written representational intervention to ease symptoms (WRITE symptoms).ResultsFindings from these trials show that interventions based on the representational approach are efficacious. Results of these trials have provided information for strengthening the approach and extending it to novel clinical problems and delivery modes.ConclusionsThe representational approach to patient education appears to be adequately flexible to guide interventions in different patient care situations, while also sufficiently structured to be replicable and testable.
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