Study of cystic fibrosis patient skills acquisition using a pedagogical evaluation system

Abstract

-Introduction:We developed a pedagogical evaluation system for assessing patient skills in the context of therapeutic patient education (TPE). Objectives: To use the pedagogical evaluation system to show how patient skills change at different points in their education program, and to investigate correlations between the different skills assessed. Methods: Forty-eight cystic fibrosis patients performed three evaluations each. A total of 144 evaluations were analyzed using statistical tests. Results: In general, patients' skill assessment scores tended to go up over time. We found stable associations among the different self-care skills and between self-care and metacognitive skills, and less stable associations among the different adaptation to illness skills. The study failed to show any correlation between self-care skills and adaptation to illness skills. Conclusion: Improvements are suggested to increase the quality of the pedagogical evaluation system, the foremost being that all the different skills should be assessed using the same problem situation.

Validité de construit d’un dispositif d’évaluation pédagogique pour des enfants de 9–11 ans en surpoids ou obèses

“…Sa validation a donné lieu à l'étude présentée ci-après. En effet, le dispositif d'évaluation pédagogique ayant d'abord été testé auprès de patients atteints de mucoviscidose [26,27], la poursuite du processus d'évaluation auprès d'un autre publicles enfants de 9-11 ans en surpoids ou obèses -a eu pour but de renforcer sa validité de construit externe.…”