NCT06435806

Medical Illustration Design Characteristic Evaluation

Advancing Medical Illustration in Patient Education Materials: From Art to Science. Study 1: Medical Illustration Design Characteristic Evaluation

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8,200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northeastern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to understand what people understand from medical illustrations, and what meaning and emotions (such as anxiety) they derive from different design elements.

Detailed description

The investigators will conduct cognitive interviews to understand the meaning laypersons obtain from different illustrations, their opinions on illustration styles, and their level of anxiety after viewing illustrations. The investigators will also study the effect of systematically varying medical illustration designs on layperson understanding and anxiety.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medical Illustration design	We will test 10 binary design variants for medical illustrations (for example, with and without cut-away, with and without text labels, etc). Specific variants to be identified during first task of project.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-25
• Primary completion: 2026-09-01
• Completion: 2027-01-01
• First posted: 2024-05-30
• Last updated: 2025-08-03

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States