There was evidence to suggest that education can improve HRQoL and decrease healthcare costs by reductions in downstream healthcare utilization .
Conclusions : Our review had insufficient power to exclude clinical ly important effects of education on mortality and morbidity .
Background : To assess the effects of patient education on mortality , morbidity , health-related quality of life ( HRQoL ) , and healthcare costs in people with coronary heart disease ( CHD ) .
Changes in functional health status of older women with heart disease: evaluation of a program based on self-regulation.
OBJECTIVES This study involving 570 women aged 60 years or older with heart disease , assessed the effects of a disease management program on physical functioning , symptom experience , and psychosocial status . METHODS Women were r and omly assigned to control or program groups . Six to eight women met weekly with a health educator and peer leader over 4 weeks to learn self-regulation skills with physical activity as the focus . Evaluative data were collected through telephone interviews , physical assessment s , and medical records at baseline and 4 and 12 months post baseline . RESULTS At 12 months , compared with controls , program women were less symptomatic ( p < .01 ) , scored better on the physical dimension of the Sickness Impact Profile ( SIP ; p < 0.05 ) , had improved ambulation as measured by the 6-minute walk ( p < 0.01 ) , and lost more body weight ( p < .001 ) . No differences related to psychosocial factors as measured by the SIP were noted . CONCLUSION A self-regulation-based program that was provided to older women with heart disease and that focused on physical activity and disease management problems salient to them , improved their physical functioning and symptom experience . Psychosocial benefit was not evident and may be a result of measurement error or due to insufficient program time spent on psychosocial aspects of functioning
There was evidence to suggest that education can improve HRQoL and decrease healthcare costs by reductions in downstream healthcare utilization .
Conclusions : Our review had insufficient power to exclude clinical ly important effects of education on mortality and morbidity .
Background : To assess the effects of patient education on mortality , morbidity , health-related quality of life ( HRQoL ) , and healthcare costs in people with coronary heart disease ( CHD ) .