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http://dx.doi.org/10.14367/kjhep.2014.31.2.41

An Analysis of the Contents of Medication Education in Health Textbooks for Children and Adolescents  

Kim, Kwon Ha (National Health Insurance Service/Dept. of Insurance Benefit)
Kang, Eun Jeong (Department of Health Administration and Management, Soonchunhyang University)
Park, Hye Kyung (School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Eui-Kyung (School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion / v.31, no.2, 2014 , pp. 41-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the education contents on safe use of medications in healthcare textbooks for elementary, middle and high schools. Methods: We examined 6 textbooks for the $5^{th}$ grade, 4 textbooks for middle school, 3 textbooks for high school, and 5 education materials published by the Korea Food and Drug Administration, National Health Insurance Service, and Seoul City Government. To evaluate the contents in health textbooks, we developed the 30 evaluation items. Results: Middle school textbooks had the most educational contents followed by high school and elementary school textbooks. Public education materials for the teenagers included more educational contents than those for children. The education material published by National Health Insurance Service had the highest score and the rest of the books earned under 15. And there were no core contents in medication education. Conclusions: Medication education through health textbooks should be strengthened to raise the level of medication awareness, to use medications safely, to prevent the drug abuse and misuse, and to establish the responsible judgment of medication information in the mass media. The current contents were found to be insufficient to meet these goals of medication education.
Keywords
Medication use; Health education; Textbook analysis; Children and Adolescents;
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