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TV shows beat pamphlets in the waiting room Alice Klein
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Televised health programs shown in GP waiting rooms can help to spread preventive health messages and educate patients, research shows. Three-quarters of patients say that they like to learn about health while sitting in GP waiting rooms, according to a survey of 71 patients attending a general practice in regional Victoria. Just under half the patients reported watching the health channel that was televised in the clinic’s waiting room, and one-quarter said that they learned new and useful information, according to findings presented at the RACGP's annual conference in Melbourne. The Australian evidence-based TV channel, known as Tonic Direct, was designed to educate patients about a range of health subjects, including immunisation and prevention of chronic disease. It features experts and medical media personalities, such as Dr Norman Swan, who hosts the Health Report on ABC.
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Some patients “dipped in and out” of watching the TV because they were playing on their phone or flicking through magazines.
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But there was higher engagement with the TV than with information pamphlets and posters that were also available in the waiting room, according to lead author Associate Professor Robyn Woodward-Kron. “Patients are definitely receptive to the availability of health information in the waiting room. They like having it and they are interested in it,” she told the audience at GP15 on Monday. Younger patients were more receptive to the TV program than older patients, said Professor Woodward-Kron, who is a healthcare communication researcher at the University of Melbourne. “We could see that older people actually turned their back to the TV to watch the doctors coming out of their doors." However, the overall response was positive, and no one asked the receptionists to switch the channel back to daytime TV, she said.
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Professor Woodward-Kron stressed that the study was not funded by Tonic Direct and said
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waiting room education strategies should be pursued further. “Patients in a waiting room are a captive audience. They’re likely to be predisposed to think about health issues,” she said.
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Dare I use slightly inappropriate language and say 'no s..t Sherlock'. I think community health worked this one out about 15 years ago. I would love to have a dollar for every useless pamphlet, usually produced by governments, left for a non-receptive audience in waiting rooms, hospitals and centres across the country with little or no impact. I weep for the trees! In this visual/digital age the thought of producing yet more paper waste fills me with despair. Unfortunately the bureaucrats and elected idiots have yet to get the message. I live in hope! •
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