SAT0680 Educational needs of a large cohort of patients with different rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a health facility in Austria

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Background: Patient education is an important part of the management of rheumatic and other diseases. Since patients do not have the same needs, it is crucial to assess needs of a targeted group to be able to tailor educational interventions.Objectives: To assess educational needs of a large cohort of patients with different rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a health facility in Austria.Methods: We conducted an online survey with patients attending the Gastein Healing Galleries in Bad Gastein, Austria. Approximately 12,000 patients with a variety of diseases are treated in the centre every year. Of those, 6,465 patients were invited by email to fill out an anonymous online survey. Socio-demographics and health outcomes were collected from all respondents. In addition, the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (Austrian version - OENAT) was administered to a subset of respondents. The OENAT (39 items) assesses 7 domains of educational needs: Managing Pain, Movement, Managing Feelings, Arthritis/Disease process, Treatments, Self Help Measures, Support Systems.Results: In total 2017 (31%) patients responded of which 516 had data on educational needs: AS (63%), RA (14%), and FM (24%). Their mean (SD) age was 56 (11), and 54% were male. Level of education was: Elementary School (32%), Junior High School (22%), High School (21%), College (12%), and University (14%). Table 1 presents differences in educational needs across disease groups. Across the groups, there were significant differences in following OENAT domains: Managing Pain, Feelings, Treatments, and Support Systems. There were no differences in the level of educational needs in Movements, Disease Process, and Self-Help Measures. Patients with FM had significantly lower needs for managing and higher needs for feeling education, compared to those with AS and RA (p<.05). The RA group had significantly higher needs than the AS (p<.05) and FM (p<.05) groups for treatments education - the AS group had significantly higher needs than the FM group (p<.05) in the same domain. AS patients had significantly higher needs for support system education than FM (p<.05) and RA patients (p<.05).View this table:Table 1 Differences in educational needs across disease groupsConclusion: Educational needs vary by disease groups and depend on the domain under consideration. Disclosure of Interests: None declared mehr

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Titel	SAT0680 Educational needs of a large cohort of patients with different rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a health facility in Austria
Medien	Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Heft	Suppl 2
Band	2019 78
Verfasser	M. Offenbächer, L. Toussaint, Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls, C. Hanshans, M. Vallejo, J. Rivera, F. M. Sirois, J. K. Hirsch, J. Untner, B. Hölzl, M. Gaisberger, M. Ndosi
Seiten	1442
Veröffentlichungsdatum	01.01.2019
Zitation	Offenbächer, M.; Toussaint, L.; Kohls, Niko; Hanshans, C.; Vallejo, M.; Rivera, J.; Sirois, F. M.; Hirsch, J. K.; Untner, J.; Hölzl, B.; Gaisberger, M.; Ndosi, M. (2019): SAT0680 Educational needs of a large cohort of patients with different rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases attending a health facility in Austria. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2019 78 (Suppl 2), 1442. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.5416