Use of Guidance Videos to Increase Engagement and Decrease Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Pleural Tap
- Conditions
- Pleural Pleurisy EffusionPleural Effusion, MalignantPleural Effusion
- Interventions
- Other: Personalized training video
- Registration Number
- NCT04254445
- Lead Sponsor
- GistMed Ltd.
- Brief Summary
Patients planned to undergo a pleural tap will get verbal explanation or watch a personalized guidance video in addition to verbal explanation. Questionnaires will be filled to assess the effect of the video training on understanding, cooperation and anxiety.
- Detailed Description
100 patients with pleural effusion, planned to undergo a diagnostic or therapeutic pleural tap, will be randomized to watch a personalized custom video training, explaining the procedure, in addition to the verbal explanation given by the medical staff, or to get the standard verbal explanation alone. Questionnaires regarding their understanding of the procedure, their feelings and the level of anxiety will be filled before and after the video/verbal explanation, and after the procedure. the study aims to check whether the video training provides better understanding of the procedure, increases cooperation and engagement and decreases anxiety.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- patients hospitalized in Internal medicine C and D, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centers
- Patients with pleural effusion, planned to undergo diagnostic or therapeutic pleural tap
- Patients who can read and understand the questions
- Patients who were interested in participating in the clinical trial and signed an informed consent form
- Minors < 18 years of age
- Pregnant women
- Patients who cannot read and understand, at the discretion of the investigator
- Patients which their medical condition does not allow them to undergo the study procedure
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Training video arm Personalized training video Patients will watch a personalized custom training video, in addition to the standard explanation provided by the medical staff
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fulfillment of need for information gap 30 minutes Improvement of subjective self-assessment of the patient's need of information on the tap procedure following the explanation received, based on the short form of the Quality from Patient Perspective (QPP) measurement. The improvement in the intervention arm will be compared to the one of the control arm
Assessment of Anxiety 30 minutes Delta of subjective self-assessment on his/her anxiety about the procedure, following the explanation received (using visual scale of 1-100, based on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS)). The reduction of anxiety in the intervention arm will be compared to the one of the control arm
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The need of an active role 30 Minutes The patients will be asked to score whether the explanation allowed them the active role they needed, based on the Picker Patient Experience (PPE-15) Questionnaire. The score in the intervention arm will be compared to the one of the control arm
Confidence and Knowledge to take actions 30 minutes The patient would be asked to score whether the information they received allowed them to understand what they should do next, based on the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) Questionnaire. The score in the intervention arm will be compared to the one of the control arm
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
🇮🇱Tel Aviv, Israel