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Computer-based Tutorial as a Means to Enhance the Informed Consent Process for Cataract Surgery

NCT07167576 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2025-09-11

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Summary

Informing the patient and obtaining the informed consent is one of the major duties physicians perform before beginning a medical treatment.

Some years ago we developed the so-called CatInfo programme that allows to inform the patient inter-actively prior to the face-to-face interview with the physician. This program was found to lead to significantly better informed patients in our hospital. Although these findings were significant, we would like to investigate more on two other aspects in this study: Firstly, we would like to learn more about the patients' attitude before and after surgery. Therefore, we would like to ask the patients' about their willingness of being informed and decision making using a standardised questionnaire. Secondly, we would like to investigate on the differences in the duration of informed consent taking in patients that have heard and seen the CatInfo vs. patients received no information prior to the face-to-face interview with the physician. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of these groups.

This difference will then be evaluated together with the result of the MCQ (assessing the patients' knowledge concerning cataract surgery after informed consent taking). The primary hypothesis is that patients' are better informed after watching the CatInfo tool although the face-to face interview is shorter.

Conditions

  • Patients' Information Level About Cataract Surgery
  • Patients' Attitude Before and After Cataract Surgery

Interventions

OTHER

Catinfo tool and discussion with physician

Patients in the study group watch a computer presentation with information about the cataract surgery

OTHER

discussion with physician

Patients in the control group have a discussion with the physician

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vienna Institute for Research in Ocular Surgery

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oliver Findl, MD · Vienna Institute for Research in Ocular Surgery

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-01-31
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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