Table 2.

Patient outcomes and instruments used to assess the effect of Web-based patient education (alphabetical order).

Outcome measure	Instrument	Used in
Knowledge acquisition	Deaconess Informed Comprehension Test	[48]
	Hip Fractures Knowledge Test	[53]
	Knowledge Test	[44,45]
	Modified Standard Anaesthesia Learning Test	[50]
	Osteoporosis Health Belief Survey	[51,53]
	Orthopaedic Patients Knowledge Questionnaire	[44]
	Osteoarthritis Quality Indicator	[56]
	Sufficiency of Knowledge	[44,45]
	Custom instrument (no name provided)	[54,55,49]
Patient satisfaction and patient feedbacka	Client Satisfaction Questionnaire	[48]
	Patients’ Evaluations of Education	[46]
	Perceived Health Website Usability Questionnaire	[53]
	Custom instrument (no name provided)	[49]
Anxiety	Emotions Questionnaire	[47]
	State-Trait Anxiety Index	[48]
	Patients’ Evaluations of Education	[46]
	Custom instrument (no name provided)	[49]
Empowerment, self-efficacy, and health attitudes	Calcium subscale of Osteoporosis Self-efficacy Scale	[53]
	Osteoporosis Health Belief Scale	[51,53]
	Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale	[53]
	Patients’ Evaluations of Education	[46]
	Self-efficacy for Exercise	[53]
	Web-based Learning Self-efficacy Measure	[53]
Self-management and behavior change	Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	[51]
	Block-National Cancer Institute Health Habits and History Questionnaire	[53]
	Brief Physical Activity Survey	[51]
	Health Education Impact Questionnaire	[56]
	Yale Physical Activity Survey	[53]
Clinical outcomes	The Symptoms	[43]
	Verbal Rating Scale of McGill Pain Questionnaire	[52]

^aQualitative feedback methods [51,52,55] are not included in the table.