NCT02185807

Video-assisted Informed Consent for Cataract Surgery

Does Video-assisted Informed Consent for Cataract Surgery Improve Patients' Satisfaction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Guangzhou First People's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will investigate whether video-assisted informed consent is superior to routine discussion for cataract patients about risks, benefits and alternatives to receiving phacoemulsification cataract extract and intraocular lens implantation, and will determine whether video-assisted informed consent can reduce the work load of physicians.

Detailed description

Patients with age-related cataract who scheduled for elective phacoemulsification cataract extract and intraocular lens implantation surgery and their physicians who on charge of these patients will be enrolled in the study. Patients will be randomized to the video assistance group watched a video in Cantonese or Mandarin explaining the surgery procedure and its risks, benefits and alternatives before discussion with their physicians. The control group will receive traditional verbal information and discussion from their physicians. A questionnaire for patients will be administered to assess the comprehension and satisfaction with the informed consent process before surgery.

Conditions

• Cataract
• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	video-assisted group	The video assistance patients watch a video in Cantonese or Mandarin explaining the surgery procedure and its risks, benefits and alternatives before discussion with their physicians.
PROCEDURE	control group	The control patients receive verbal information and discussion from their physicians.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2014-07-10
• Last updated: 2016-08-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China