A Mixed Methods Assessment of Home-Based Video Pretransplant Lung Education.
Holly Mansell, Mark E Fenton, Julian S Tam and 3 others
PMID 35686353WHAT IT FOUND
Patients who watched a home lung-transplant video series found it helpful and valued real patient stories, but medication education and travel or listing questions remained unclear.
Key findings
01Participants who watched the full video series rated the videos helpful (4.7 on 5) and were satisfied with transplant education (4.2 on 5), but rated education about medications lowest (3.9 on 5).
02Nearly half of the 17 participants (8/17, 47%) explicitly said they valued genuine patient and caregiver testimonials.
03After viewing, participants still had unanswered questions about out-of-province trip logistics (n = 6), health status and listing (n = 5), and financial supports (n = 2); 8 were unsure whether they were listed.
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What it does not show
Only 17 participants and 3 caregivers watched the entire video series, and 22 were interviewed from 48 approached. The participants were mostly male, older, and Caucasian, so the views may not match other patients. The study was a single-center program evaluation and the authors say it is not generalizable to other settings. People who did not watch the videos were not interviewed, so the paper does not capture their reasons fully.
Declared interests
Lung Saskatchewan funded the development of the video intervention used in this study. The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. Financial support came from the Respiratory Research Centre at the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the high ratings as proof that the videos improve clinical outcomes or replace in-person education. This was a small single-center program evaluation of satisfaction and themes from 17 participants and 3 caregivers.