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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 31, No. 10, 602-607 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289203101005

Learning by Teaching

A Resident-Taught Oral Therapy Program for Acute Diarrhea

Lewis R. First, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Rosemary Lauerman, B.A.

Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Terry Fenton, Ed.D.

Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Lynn Herzog, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

John D. Snyder, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

An educational program on oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhea was instituted in our residents' continuity clinics to evaluate the impact that residents teaching parents would have on the knowledge and practices of both groups. Sixty-one residents and 287 parents answered the initial written questionnaire before the teaching program began, and 48 residents and 147 parents completed a second questionnaire at the end of the program. Nineteen residents in two clinics were told to participate frequently in teaching the parents, while 29 residents in three other clinics were given no such instructions. The parents were divided into three groups: 58 received teaching and an instructional handout on the management of diarrhea; 73 received only the instructional handout; and 16 received neither intervention. The 19 "teaching" residents had a significantly improved overall score compared with the "nonteaching" residents (p <.03). No improvement was found in the scores of the 58 parents who received teaching compared with those of the 89 parents who received either a handout or no educational intervention. We conclude that active teaching of ORT may improve the knowledge and practices of residents, but that single teaching encounters, whether or not accompanied by written instructions, may have little impact on parents.


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