title: Use of a brief educational video administered by a portable video device to improve skin cancer knowledge in the outpatient transplant population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The considerably high risk of skin cancer development among transplant recipients warrants effective and efficient patient education on sun-protective behaviors.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effectiveness and patient satisfaction of a brief educational video on skin cancer risks and sun-protective behaviors in the transplant population during a routine posttransplant follow-up visit, as compared with an educational handout.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred posttransplant patients were randomized to receive either video or pamphlet education about skin cancer. The primary outcome measure was knowledge acquisition, which was assessed using a 10-criterion grading instrument before and after the assigned educational intervention. The secondary outcome measure was patient satisfaction with the particular educational intervention received.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Comparison between the 2 treatment groups demonstrated that the video group had significantly greater improvement in knowledge scores (3.96 ± 1.69) as compared with the pamphlet group (1.76 ± 1.42, p < .01). Moreover, subjects in the video group rated the educational material as more useful and appealing than did subjects in the pamphlet group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings suggest an inherent appeal for audio-visual presentation and point its potential to improve patients' knowledge of their increased risk of skin cancer and preventive skin cancer measures.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois; †University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Nhat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Trinh
authors.forename: Karlee
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Novice
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lekakh
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Means
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tung
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D010045:Outpatients; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*