Be sure your visuals are clear and simple. We also recommmend that you think about the purpose of you material. The material can provide information about health promotion and disease prevention diseases or treatments what to expect during or after a clinic or hospital stay how to prepare for a procedure or test. You may needed to write more than one piece if you are trying to include too many objectives. Use written material to provide initial information needed prior to other teaching as a tool during a teaching session to reinforce teaching that has already occured.
Written material is most effective when it is relevant to the patient.
The learning objectives should bridge the patient's needs and concerns. The words and reading level need to be appropriate. Use voice format and graphics that are sensitive to the age, gender and culture of the reader. First, they generally break all of the rules of behavior change. They often fail to appeal to the patient's perception of benefit.