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Impact of Visualization Format and Navigational Options on Laypeople’s Perception and Preference of Surgery Information Videos: Randomized Controlled Experiment and Online Survey

Not Applicable
Conditions
Healthy participants, who were faced with a hypothetical decision situation (cruciate ligament rupture, decision about a treatment)
Registration Number
DRKS00016003
Lead Sponsor
eibniz-Wissenschaftscampus Cognitive Interfaces
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
157
Inclusion Criteria

1. Registered in the participant database of the Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien (voluntary and open to everyone who is interested to participate in psychological studies)
2. Age: 18 or older
3. Fluent in the German language
4. Agreement to watch a medical video (in the invitation and in the informed consent form participants were made aware that they might watch a video demonstrating the surgery on a body donor)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Medical or sports students and people working in a medical profession
2. Age: younger than 18
3. not fluent in the German language

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
All outcomes were measured with questionaires on a computer.<br>- Certainty regarding the decison for or against a surgery (measured before and after watching the information video): 5 items, self-constructed, 5-point Likert scale<br>- Emotions (measured after watching the video): subscales fear and disgust, with 3 items each from the modified Differential Affect Scale, on a 5-point Likert scale<br>- Attitude toward the surgery (measured before and after watching the video): 4 bipolar items on a 7-point scale, from Marteau et al. (2001)<br>- Factual knowledge (measured after watching the video): 5 items, self-constructed, multiple choice or entry of a single word/number<br>- Procedural knowledge (measured after watching the video): sorting task, self-constructed
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
- Hypothetical decison for or against a surgery (measured before and after watching the video): 1 item, self-constructed, 5-point Likert scale<br>- General evaluation of the video (measured after watching the video): 4 items, self-constructed
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