Neoplasms

Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

All Conditions

Mouth and Tooth Diseases

Diseases and Abnormalities at or Before Birth

Rare Diseases

Breast Neoplasms

Sarcoma

Cleft Lip

Mouth Diseases

Stomatognathic Diseases

Congenital Abnormalities

Mouth Abnormalities

Stomatognathic System Abnormalities

Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Patient Leaflet with Augmented reality component

Traditional leaflet without Augmented Reality component

The patient leaflet has an Augmented Reality model that appears out of the leaflet when viewed with a smartphone

Augmented Reality

Traditional leaflet with no Augmented Reality capability

Traditional leaflet

Steven Lo, FRCS Plast

David McGill, FRCS Plast

Steven Lo

This project aims to assess a new type of Augmented Reality Patient Information leaflet, in order to demonstrate that it is a beneficial information resource to patients when facing the diagnosis of sarcoma, breast cancer or to explain difficult concepts such as cleft lip repair. There are no published studies on the use of AR in patient leaflets.

At present, the traditional approach to patient education regarding diseases such as a new cancer diagnosis, is the patient information leaflet. Patient information leaflets often fail to convey the required medical information due to poor levels of literacy in the population, with 20% patients in the UK having the lowest level of adult literacy (equivalent to an individual who is unable to determine how much medicine to give a child from information printed on the package). "Health literacy" - the ability to obtain, understand, act on and communicate health information - is even lower, with estimates that 40% of patients have inadequate levels of health literacy. Additionally, there is a large knowledge gap between what doctors perceive patients understand about an illness, medication, or operation, and what patients actually comprehend and retain during consultation.

The plethora of problems of inadequate information, poor health literacy and patient-doctor knowledge disconnect, may be addressed with an approach to patient information leaflets using a platform that is entirely simulative and visual, thereby overcoming the problem of health literacy. The study builds upon pilot work by this research team on patient leaflets using AR to aid in patient education, visualisation and retention of information (Lo et al 2019).

It is not possible to blind participants to visual information in the patient leaflet (augmented reality versus traditional). The data collected will be fully anonymised before statistical assessment by an independent statistical service

Augmented Reality (AR): The Future of "Patient Information Leaflets

Available on reasonable written request following publication.

Patients will be interviewed regarding opinions of the two types of patient leaflet.

Validated scale for cognitive load/ ease of understanding leaflet. Single item scale with rating 1 = very, very low mental effort to 9 = very, very high mental effort. Lower score is better

Visual analogue scale, overall satisfaction with patient leaflet. Visual analogue scale will be converted to numerical scale 0-100, with higher being better or more satisfied

Assessment of patient learning motivation after reading leaflet. 36 items, each item rated by Likert scale 1-5. Higher score is better.

9 item scale with Likert rating 0-10 for each item. Total score out of 90, with 3 sub scales measuring cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions. Higher score is better.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Augmented Reality (AR): The Future of "Patient Information Leaflets	NCT04619030	Sarcoma Breast Cancer Cleft Lip and P... Surgical Flap	Augmented Reali... Traditional lea...	16 Years - 90 Years	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Augmented Reality (AR): The Future of "Patient Information Leaflets	NCT04619030	Sarcoma Breast Cancer Cleft Lip and P... Surgical Flap	Augmented Reali... Traditional lea...	16 Years - 90 Years	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for traditional leaflet