Authors (including presenting author) :
WAN YT, LAM KKA, CHAN CS, CHOW TWC, CHOY WK, AU PS, CHAN HY, LAU MS, CHOW WPA, CHEUNG PH, CHEUNG YHK, WONG MYM
Affiliation :
Department of Family Medicine & Primary Healthcare, Hong Kong East Cluster
Introduction :
To promote skin and wound care, not only professional staff provide education to patient with wound. Wound prevention is the ultimate goal in wound care. Poster education is one of the simple way in promoting positive message in wound care.
Objectives :
Poster being posted up in General Out Patient Clinic (GOPC) near treatment room is an opportunity to promote wound or skin related knowledge to patient who have or not yet have wound. Aims to increase self-awareness in wound care and to reduce the occurrence or recurrence of wound. Shortening the healing time, decreasing complication rate and prevention wound formation are the foreseeable achievement.
Methodology :
2-3 posters were designed in each year since 2018. We have chance to share the Information on ingrown toe nails care or fallacies in wound have being shared to episodic or chronic follow up patient who have no wound. For wound care patients, the particular wound care like venous ulcer, burn and scald wound also being shared via posters.
QR code was attached on each poster, in cooperated for the education convenience when they back home or share with family members or friends.
Result & Outcome :
A patient survey was conducted to collect patients’ comment and expectation in posters education. Totally, there were 58 samples have been collected. Half of them with wound and the other half were without wound.
Around 90% of them believed the posters were useful and easily to be understood. And 67% of the respondents agreed the poster was attractive.
Elderly skin care and emergence wound care are the most popular suggested topic in future poster.
As a conclusion, the perception of wound poster presentation are benefits to patient in out-patient clinic. Visual appeal and poster imagery were cited and more influential than subject content. And the QR code are convenience for clients to share the information to their families and friends.
Continuous measurement of patient experience to evaluate the quality of patient education from their perspective. The survey also serves as an important platform to enhance patient engagement and empowerment throughout the care process.
