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EBP
Practice Problem: For children with growth delay and their parents, how can implementation of storybooks with images, compared to disease specific handouts, increase understanding and knowledge of the disease and treatment as well as decrease anxiety? It was identified that parents and patients coming to the Endocrine Clinic for growth delay, did not always fully understand the reasons for the growth evaluation or causes of growth delay.
Literature/Evidence: Literature was retrieved, appraised, and synthesized to define best practices to create storybooks. Best practices included, using storybooks that include images, co-creation with intended audience. Using storybooks for patient education has been shown to have better outcomes including the ability to better understand concepts to which they may not typically be exposed, increased medical knowledge, better confidence in caring for child, increased adherence to treatment plans and decreased anxiety.
Practice Change: A team consisting of content experts worked together to co-create a storybook detailing a child’s first visit to the endocrine clinic for growth concerns. A draft was sent to two patients taking growth hormone and their parents for edits and feedback and all edits included in final draft.
Implementation: After approval from the health literacy committee, the book went to marketing for artwork and development. It has now gone to print and should be available in the next weeks to be distributed to all new patients coming for growth concerns. Pre-implementation data obtained to measure parent understanding and anxiety of the diagnosis and work up required after review of a short stature one page education sheet and visit with the physician. All children ages 7 and up are also given the survey to measure understanding and anxiety. Post-implementation data will be gathered once the book is available.
Recommendations: Clinicians should increase use of and/or create storybooks with images for patient education use.
Publication Date
9-27-2024
Keywords
EBP, Evidence-Based Pracitce, Evidence-Based Nursing, Patient Education, Storybooks
Disciplines
Pediatric Nursing
Recommended Citation
Brown, Jennifer, "The Use of Storybook Implementation for Patient Education Tools" (2024). 2024. 39.
https://scholarlycollection.childrens.com/nursing-anf2024/39
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