Studies on therapeutic patient education in chronic diseases : a survey of literature from 1997 to 2004

Angelo Godibile (1) , Jean-François d'Ivernois (2) , Alain Deccache (3) , Tamara Cirillo (1) , Maria Grazia Albano (1)

1 Center of Health Sciences Education
2 LPS - Laboratoire de Pédagogie de la Santé
3 Health and Patient Education Unit RESO

We have tried to describe and analyse the evolution of publications devoted to patient education (PE) and therapeutic patient education (TPE) over a 8 years period.(1997-2004). Among 945513 studies published on chronic diseases, 3 types of analyses have been undertaken : evolution of PE publications, relative evolution of PE and TPE publications, evolution of types of publications (descriptive, experimental, meta-analysis). Our study shows that PE publications have clearly increased over the years , indicating that PE practice is more and more considered of scientific interes

Mots clés: Survey; Publications; Chronic diseases; Patient education; Therapeutic patient education

Domaines: Santé publique et épidémiologie

Angelo Godibile, Jean-François d'Ivernois, Alain Deccache, Tamara Cirillo, Maria Grazia Albano. Studies on therapeutic patient education in chronic diseases : a survey of literature from 1997 to 2004. 2006. ⟨hal-00151141⟩