초･중･고등학교 보건 교과서의 의약품 교육 내용 분석

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the education contents on safe use of medications in healthcare textbooksfor elementary, middle and high schools. Methods: We examined 6 textbooks for the 5th grade, 4 textbooks for middle school,3 textbooks for high school, and 5 education materials published by the Korea Food and Drug Administration, National HealthInsurance Service, and Seoul City Government. To evaluate the contents in health textbooks, we developed the 30 evaluationitems. Results: Middle school textbooks had the most educational contents followed by high school and elementary schooltextbooks. Public education materials for the teenagers included more educational contents than those for children. Theeducation material published by National Health Insurance Service had the highest score and the rest of the books earned under15. And there were no core contents in medication education. Conclusions: Medication education through health textbooksshould be strengthened to raise the level of medication awareness, to use medications safely, to prevent the drug abuse andmisuse, and to establish the responsible judgment of medication information in the mass media. The current contents werefound to be insufficient to meet these goals of medication education.