WashU DIEP Flap Video and Patient Understanding Improvement

The Washington University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Other: WashU DIEP Flap Video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06864754

202503134

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients will complete a survey before and after watching the WashU DIEP Flap Video at their pre-operative standard of care visit, and a third survey at their post-operative standard of care visit. These surveys will use questions from SILS, APAIS, PEMAT, and AIM/IAM to assess the patient's health literacy, demographics questions, and questions concerning patient understanding and anxiety surrounding the procedure. The purpose of the post-op survey will be to assess how well the video set expectations of the procedure and recovery process and will repeat questions asked pre-operatively. Survey responses will be analyzed to determine if there are beneficial trends and improvement in patient understanding and anxiety due to adjunct video usage.

Primary Objective: The primary aim of the study is to determine if our animated video affects understanding and anxiety survey scores in patients undergoing DIEP breast reconstruction.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled to have DIEP-flap breast reconstruction at Barnes Jewish Hospital
• Speak English
• ≥ 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking are excluded as the consent, questionnaires, and video are only available in English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

WashU DIEP Flap Video

Experimental group

Description:

At the pre-operative appointment, patients will complete the pre-video survey (\~10min) via RedCap, watch the video (\~5min), and complete the post-video survey (\~10min) via RedCap. During the standard of care follow-up appointment ≤ 30 days after surgery, consented patients will fill out a third survey via RedCap (\~5min).

Treatment:

Other: WashU DIEP Flap Video