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Medical Comics as Tools to Aid in Obtaining Informed Consent for Stroke Care.
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- The use of comics to promote health awareness: A template using nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.European journal of clinical investigation · 2022Review
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- Development of a Moderated Online Intervention to Treat Social Anxiety in First-Episode Psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Using Comics to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2018Article
- A didactic approach to presenting verbal and visual information to children participating in research protocols: the comic book informed assent.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2018Article
- Critical role of accompanying authorized surrogates among the multifactorial determinants of in-hospital delays in patients with acute stroke.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Informed consent has now become common in medical practice. However, a gap still exists between doctors and patients in the understanding of clinical conditions. We designed medical comics about "subarachnoid hemorrhage" and "intracerebral hemorrhage" to help doctors obtain informed consent intuitively, quickly, and comprehensively.Between September 2010 and September 2012, we carried out a questionnaire survey about medical comics with the families of patients who had suffered an intracerebral or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The questionnaire consisted of 6 questions inquiring about their mental condition, reading time, usefulness of the comics in understanding brain function and anatomy, pathogenesis, doctor's explanation, and applicability of these comics.The results showed that 93.8% responders would prefer or strongly prefer the use of comics in other medical situations. When considering the level of understanding of brain function and anatomy, pathology of disease, and doctor's explanation, 81.3%, 75.0%, and 68.8% of responders, respectively, rated these comics as very useful or useful.We think that the visual and narrative illustrations in medical comics would be more helpful for patients than a lengthy explanation by a doctor. Most of the responders hoped that medical comics would be applied to other medical cases. Thus, medical comics could work as a new communication tool between doctors and patients.
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