Trial reportInternational urology and nephrology2021
Does the use of video improve patient satisfaction in the consent process for local-anaesthetic urological procedures?
Trial report in International urology and nephrology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The use of e-consent in surgery and application to neurosurgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta neurochirurgica · 2023Pooled it
- Comparing video-assisted and verbal explanations in Japanese hospital dentistry: patient evaluations in third molar extraction and medical-dental collaborative care.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Article
- PPI in LifeMap-QUEST: an example of co-producing videos in different languages to support inclusion in a clinical study.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
- Randomized controlled trial of a video-based educational platform prior to in-person vasectomy consult.International journal of impotence research · 2026Article
- CLINTERVENTIONAL protocol: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate clinical consultations and audiovisual tools for interventional radiology.European radiology experimental · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess patient satisfaction with the use of portable video media (PVM) for the purpose of taking informed consent for common urological outpatient procedures performed under local anaesthesia.
methodsPatients undergoing the following procedures were approached for recruitment: flexible cystoscopy with or without biopsy, transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy or flexible cystoscopy with insertion or removal of a ureteric stent. Audio-visual media were developed for each procedure, with each script translated from English into isiXhosa and Afrikaans. The study involved a cross-over for each patient between standard verbal consent (SVC) and PVM consent, with each patient randomised to start with SVC or PVM consent. Each of these consent arms was assessed via a questionnaire.
resultsSixty patients completed participation, with PVM as the first exposure for 28 patients and 32 patients receiving SVC as their first arm of the study. When comparing the overall satisfaction between SVC and PVM consent (the total scores out of 18 for the questionnaire), patients scored significantly higher for PVM consent (M = 16.3 ± 2.4) compared to SVC (M = 15.4 ± 2.9) (p = 0.002). 92% of the total patient sample preferred PVM consent.
conclusionPortable video media proved superior to SVC in improving satisfaction in the consent process for common outpatient urological procedures performed under local anaesthesia.
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