CCFHH Program Awardees: Evaluation By Papers
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One of the awardees composed a paper containing evaluation materials. The relevant evaluation content is below along with a link to the final report.
[edit] University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center College of Medicine
The University of Oklahoma presented their evaluation results in a question and answer format, as part of a larger paper.
- What data were collected?
- Data was collected before and after the booklets with supplemental lecture and handouts were introduced to the medical school students to assess their knowledge and use of the family health history. The data was collected from the students’ patient profile papers. The student papers evaluated whether the student included and were able to generate a family health history that included the following eight elements: correct use of standard pedigree symbols, correct use of the relationship lines, patient of interest was identified, three generation were included, illnesses and age of diagnosis identified, educational level/ history of learning disabilities, family members’ ages including, when applicable, age of death.
- What outcomes were generated?
- The overall quality of the family health histories on the pre-booklets was fair. Strong points were the use of correct pedigree symbols and relationship lines. Weak points were an overall lack of information. Most students only included the patient, patient’s parents, and one set of grandparents. Also, information was not collected about ages, illnesses, causes of death, and educational levels. The majority of students were unable explain the importance of the family health history as it related to patient care.
- The overall quality improved after an introduction of the booklets with a classroom lectures and supplemental handouts. The students were more likely to include a full three generations and information about illnesses, ages, causes of death, and educational level. More students were able to identify the importance and included a complete family health history in their patient reports.
- Did you conduct surveys?
- No.
- Did you hold focus groups?
- No, but we held informal discussions with the educators and with medical students in the advisory committee.
- What was the feedback from the discussions?
- The booklets were too simple for the medical school student and a more detailed booklet would be more useful for the students.
- Did you conduct individual interviews?
- No.
- Click to see University of Oklahoma: Final Report.
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