Patient understanding of liver cirrhosis and improvement using multimedia education.
Frontline Gastroenterol
; 8(3): 214-219, 2017 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
For patients to engage with the long-term management of liver cirrhosis, sufficient understanding of their condition is essential. The aim of this study was to assess baseline patient knowledge and to test whether a condition-specific multimedia screencast could improve this.DESIGN:
Service quality improvement study.SETTING:
A UK tertiary liver centre. Patients were recruited during 12 general hepatology outpatient clinics. PATIENTS Fifty-two patients with liver cirrhosis were included. Sixty-two per cent were male; their median age was 56â years and their median clinic attendance period was 3â years.INTERVENTIONS:
Participants completed a baseline questionnaire assessing their knowledge of the management and complications of cirrhosis. They then watched a tailored screencast discussing this condition, which had been developed by expert hepatologists in collaboration with patient representatives. Knowledge was reassessed using a new copy of the original questionnaire after an interval of at least one month. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
Patient scores on knowledge questionnaires at baseline and follow-up.RESULTS:
Fifty-two patients achieved a median score of 25.0% before viewing the screencast. Thirty-five patients then completed a follow-up questionnaire after an interval period. The median questionnaire score in this group improved from 25.0% to 66.7%; an increase of 41.7% compared with baseline (p<0.001).CONCLUSIONS:
Despite regular review at a specialist clinic, participants had poor baseline knowledge of liver cirrhosis. Delivering information by screencast led to a significant improvement. We therefore present an effective way to empower patients with accurate, up-to-date and retainable information that can easily be translated to many other conditions.
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2017
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