Hepatitis C Education Class

Conducting and Coordinating a Patient Education Class on Hepatitis C
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Print copies available in every VA library. Copies are available from Hines (#F60644); ordering information (VA Intranet only).

This toolkit is intended to provide the clinician with a how-to guide and resources for conducting a patient education class on hepatitis C. It is adapted from the collected experience with educational groups by members of the four field Hepatitis C Resource Centers and the National Hepatitis C Program of VA Central Office to develop this resource.

Slide Set
[PPT 4,297K; Due to the size of this Powerpoint file, we recommend that you save it to your hard drive and open it from there. (Right click on link then "save target as.")] Slide set updated March 8, 2008.

Script for Hepatitis C Education Class
[Word doc 74 K]

The slide set and script are designed for health providers to use with their patients who have hepatitis C infection or who tested positive for hepatitis C at some time in the past. The class runs about an hour and includes these topics:

	What hepatitis C is, how people get it, and how they don't get it
	What you can do to take care of your liver if you have hepatitis C
	How hepatitis C can be treated.