Use of Guidance Videos to Increase Engagement and Decrease Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Pleural Tap

GistMed

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pleural Effusion, Malignant; Pleural Effusion; Pleural Pleurisy Effusion

Treatments: Other: Personalized training video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04254445

0009-19-TLV

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 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

Exclusion criteria

• 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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Training video arm

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will watch a personalized custom training video, in addition to the standard explanation provided by the medical staff

Treatment:

Other: Personalized training video

Verbal explanation arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will standard explanation about the procedure, provided by the medical staff