Development of a digital educational tool and evaluation of the impact of preoperative education mediated by video in Glaucoma surgeries: prospective randomized study.

• Grant number: 23/17775-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2024
• End date: May 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Ivan Maynart Tavares
• Grantee: César Costa Saleme de Lira
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This prospective randomized study aims to develop a digital educational video about pre-, per- and post-operative care in ophthalmological surgery for glaucoma, and to compare two different ways of transmitting pre-operative information to patients: one with the use of a tool digitally through a video shown to the patient and also sent via WhatsApp, and the other with information conventionally passed on within the outpatient clinic. To this end, we will divide 80 patients who will undergo surgery to treat glaucoma into two groups of 40 participants each, randomly, one being submitted to the digital educational tool via video sent via the WhatsApp application (intervention group) and the other, in the form common way in which the doctor transmits pre-operative information to patients, that is, in person at the time of the consultation, without video (control group). We will statistically evaluate the differences between the groups in terms of patient adherence rates to pre-, per- and postoperative routines, understanding of the disease, the procedure and expected results, patient anxiety, and satisfaction with the treatment performed, through a questionnaire administered to participants.