Myth-Busting Is a Bust for Patient Education: Making Salient Older Adults' Misconceptions about Osteoarthritis Fails to Lead to Lasting Corrections

Autor/in	Ansburg, Pamela I.
Titel	Myth-Busting Is a Bust for Patient Education: Making Salient Older Adults' Misconceptions about Osteoarthritis Fails to Lead to Lasting Corrections
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 42 (2016) 5, S.330-341 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
DOI	10.1080/03601277.2015.1121751
Schlagwörter	Patient Education; Patients; Older Adults; Misconceptions; Pain; Diseases; Clinical Diagnosis; Aging (Individuals); Wellness; Health Promotion; Health Education; Data Collection; Statistical Analysis; Control Groups; Individual Differences; Health Materials; Scores; Questionnaires; Colorado; Shipley Institute of Living Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patient; Älterer Erwachsener; Missverständnis; Schmerz; Disease; Krankheit; Aging; Altern; Well being; Well-being; Wohlbefinden; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Statistische Analyse; Individueller Unterschied; Fragebogen
Abstract	Older adults hold many misconceptions about health and wellness that reduce their health literacy. To counter these misconceptions, health educators commonly turn to educational interventions that include myth-busting--making explicit health-related myths and refuting those myths. Because of typical age-related changes in memory functioning, there is some question as to whether myth-busting is an effective technique for use with older adults. The present work assessed whether making older adults explicitly aware of common myths about osteoarthritis and refuting those myths would effectively debunk those myths and lead to correct beliefs about osteoarthritis. Older adults participated in two data collection sessions separated, on average, by 5 days. During the first session, participants read pamphlets about osteoarthritis that either employed myth-busting techniques or did not. Then after a brief delay, participants completed a quiz that measured adherence to the myths. Adherence to the myths was assessed again during the second data collection session. The analyses revealed that making myths salient significantly reduced adherence to myths immediately after the myth-busting presentation; however, as time passed, the corrective effects of myth-busting dissipated. Medical myth-busting appears to be an ineffective way to induce long-term corrections in older adults. Future research should focus on identifying methods by which health educators could leverage myth-busting's short-term positive impact to affect long-lasting corrections. Until there is evidence that the positive impact of myth-busting can be maintained over time, health educators should be wary of using this technique with older adult patients. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01