An educational video increases disease-related knowledge in hospitalized patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Cirrhosis Care Alberta (CCAB) Project has created an expert-guided educational video for patients with decompensated cirrhosis. The effect of this video on improving disease-related knowledge in patients with decompensated cirrhosis has yet to be determined.

Methods

In-patients with decompensated cirrhosis were prospectively recruited between November 2022 and August 2023. A pre-post-intervention design employing a questionnaire on managing complications of decompensated cirrhosis was used to evaluate whether the CCAB educational video was effective in improving disease-related knowledge, the primary outcome. Baseline knowledge was defined as preintervention questionnaire scores. Learning was defined as the difference between postintervention and preinterventi

SUBMITTER: Tkachuk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12269328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature