Surveying Doctors and Nurses Viewpoints on Enhancing and Inhibiting Factors of Educating Patients

Educating patients and improving their self-care skills are main factors to achieve maintaining and improving health as health care organizations prime priorities all over the world. This study is aimed to assess nurses and doctors viewpoints on obstacles and facilitators of educating patients. This quasi experimental research were undertaken in Kermanshah Razi hospital.85 nurses and doctors were selected by Simple Random Sampling method. The data were collected by a questionnaire based on Likert scale consisted 32 questions in 3 parts. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by Content validity and Test-Retest methods respectively. Shortage of nurses and lack of sufficient financial resources among inhibiting factors and holding seminars on teaching and learning strategies and also considering educating patients as a annual evaluation determinant among enhancing factors were the most important ones. Providing efficient resources and facilities and running personnel`s training courses seems necessary to overcome current obstacles.