Clinical trial NCT02970435: Evaluating the Impact of Video Discharge Instructions for Mohs Surgery Post-Operative Care
Official title: Evaluating the Impact of Video Discharge Instructions for Mohs Surgery Post-Operative Care
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Linear Closure
Surgery
Keywords: surgery
video discharge instructions
Lead sponsor: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-11-22
Enrollment: 14
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The purpose of this research is to look at how educational videos provided by doctors might affect patients knowledge, satisfaction, confidence, and anxiety with post-operative Mohs surgery care. Patients will be randomized to either: 1) a group that receives educational videos in addition to standard-of-care written and verbal instructions or 2) a group that receives only standard-of-care written and verbal instructions.

Detailed description: The Primary Objective of this study is to determine if video discharge instructions, when added to standard of care written and verbal instructions, lead to a decrease in unnecessary phone calls from patients in a Mohs dermatology clinic.

The Secondary Objectives of this study are to determine if video discharge instructions, when added to standard of care written and verbal instructions, help to improve patients' satisfaction with education materials provided by the clinic, improve patients' knowledge of post-operative management, improve patients' confidence in taking care of their suture site post-operatively, and reduce post-operative anxiety about their suture site.

This study will be a randomized controlled trial in which the impact of video discharge instructions on patient calls, anxiety, and confidence will be evaluated. Patients will be randomized using a permuted block model generated through SAS.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients who underwent a linear closure on the face at UH Mohs clinic
* Fluent English speakers

Exclusion Criteria:

● Non-fluent English speakers

Primary outcomes:
measure: Ratio of patients in the intervention group who call the clinic compared to percentage of patients in the control group who call the clinic
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks after discharge
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Difference in knowledge of discharge instructions in intervention group versus control group
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks after discharge
measure: Difference in confidence in intervention group versus control group
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks after discharge
measure: Difference in satisfaction in intervention group versus control group
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks after discharge
measure: Difference in self reported anxiety levels in intervention group versus control group
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks after discharge
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cleveland
country: United States
facility: University Hospitals at Cleveland Medical Center, Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
name: Jeremy Bordeaux, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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