PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John Coope
AU  - D. H. H. Metcalfe
TI  - How much do patients know? A multiple choice question paper for patients in the waiting room
DP  - 1979 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 482--487
VI  - 29
IP  - 205
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/29/205/482.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/29/205/482.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1979 Aug 01; 29
AB  - A questionnaire about knowledge of personal preventive medicine, treatment, and the appropriate use of health services was put to a population of patients attending their doctors' surgeries. The population was probably biased toward the younger and those willing to fill in such a questionnaire. The results showed a social class gradient in knowledge and a distressing degree of ignorance on some topics. Suggestions are made for using the method in a positive educational way in practices, and for further studies with improved methods.