NCT04619030

Augmented Reality (AR): The Future of "Patient Information Leaflets

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project aims to assess a new type of Augmented Reality Patient Information leaflet, in order to demonstrate that it is a beneficial information resource to patients when facing the diagnosis of sarcoma, breast cancer or to explain difficult concepts such as cleft lip repair. There are no published studies on the use of AR in patient leaflets.

Detailed description

At present, the traditional approach to patient education regarding diseases such as a new cancer diagnosis, is the patient information leaflet. Patient information leaflets often fail to convey the required medical information due to poor levels of literacy in the population, with 20% patients in the UK having the lowest level of adult literacy (equivalent to an individual who is unable to determine how much medicine to give a child from information printed on the package). "Health literacy" - the ability to obtain, understand, act on and communicate health information - is even lower, with estimates that 40% of patients have inadequate levels of health literacy. Additionally, there is a large knowledge gap between what doctors perceive patients understand about an illness, medication, or operation, and what patients actually comprehend and retain during consultation. The plethora of problems of inadequate information, poor health literacy and patient-doctor knowledge disconnect, may be addressed with an approach to patient information leaflets using a platform that is entirely simulative and visual, thereby overcoming the problem of health literacy. The study builds upon pilot work by this research team on patient leaflets using AR to aid in patient education, visualisation and retention of information (Lo et al 2019).

Conditions

• Sarcoma
• Breast Cancer
• Cleft Lip and Palate
• Surgical Flap

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Augmented Reality	The patient leaflet has an Augmented Reality model that appears out of the leaflet when viewed with a smartphone
OTHER	Traditional leaflet	Traditional leaflet with no Augmented Reality capability

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-30
• Primary completion: 2021-12-30
• Completion: 2022-03-30
• First posted: 2020-11-06
• Last updated: 2021-06-10

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom