Assessment of inflammatory bowel disease educational videos for increasing patient engagement and family and friends' levels of understanding.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We developed five educational videos through a user-centered approach for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and their families and friends. Here, we assessed if IBD patient activation and family and friends' abilities to understand IBD patients' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (i.e., perspective taking) changed after watching the videos.

Methods

Through a pre-post survey, we assessed patient activation and perspective taking levels in people with a self-reported IBD diagnosis and their family and friends, respectively, before and after watching one of the videos.

Results

Among 767 participants with IBD, patient activation scores increased significantly after watching each video. In regression analyses, patient activation levels were less like

SUBMITTER: van Deen WK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9910446 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature