NCT04254445

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

The Effect of Personalized Custom Training Videos on Patient Engagement in Hospitalized Patients Undergoing Thoracocentesis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: GistMed Ltd. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Pleural Effusion
• Pleural Effusion, Malignant
• Pleural Pleurisy Effusion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Personalized training video	Using a few demographic and medical details of the patients, provided by the medical staff, the video generator will create a 2-minute personalized custom video, suitable to the age, gender, language, and medical condition of the patients. No identifying information will be used, to protect patient's privacy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-16
• Primary completion: 2020-05-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2020-02-05
• Last updated: 2020-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel