Glaucoma Australia educational impact study: a randomized short-term clinical trial evaluating the association between glaucoma education and patient knowledge, anxiety and treatment satisfaction.
Skalicky Simon E, D'Mellow Guy, House Philip, Fenwick Eva
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Glaucoma education improved newly diagnosed patients' knowledge and significantly reduced their anxiety, highlighting the importance of comprehensive counseling for better patient outcomes.
Abstract
Importance
Targeted education may impact glaucoma patients' clinical experience.
Background
The aim of this study was to measure the impact of patient-centred glaucoma-related education on knowledge, anxiety and treatment satisfaction.
Design
This was a multicentre Australia-wide randomized clinical trial.
Participants
One hundred one newly diagnosed glaucoma patients were randomized 1:1 to intervention or control groups.
Methods
Those randomized to the Glaucoma Australia educational intervention received telephone-based counselling about glaucoma followed by mail-out information, in addition to usual care and information from their treating ophthalmologist. The control group received only usual care and information from their treating ophthalmologist. Surveys were administered at baseline and 4 weeks following intervention.
Main outcome measures
The Auckland Glaucoma Knowledge Questionnaire measured glaucoma-related knowledge. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Eye-Drop Satisfaction Questionnaire measured anxiety and patient treatment satisfaction, respectively.
Results
Mean age was 64.7 ± 11.1 years, and 52 (51.5%) were male. There was no noticeable increase in knowledge levels in the control group (mean difference: 0.04 logits, P = 0.7), compared with a 0.49-logit (P = 0.02) increase in knowledge levels in the intervention group. Between-group comparison showed a non-significant increase in knowledge (0.45 logits, P = 0.07) comparing intervention participants with controls. Intervention participants experienced a statistically significant decrease in anxiety compared to controls (-0.60 logits, P = 0.02). No between-group difference was found in Eye-Drop Satisfaction Questionnaire scores.
Conclusions and relevance: Patient-centred glaucoma-related education and support services may improve knowledge and can reduce anxiety for newly diagnosed glaucoma patients. All glaucoma patients should be adequately counselled about the nature of the disease and its management.
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The Glaucoma Australia educational intervention, consisting of telephone-based counselling and mail-out information in addition to usual care, led to a 0.49-logit (P = 0.02) increase in glaucoma-related knowledge levels in newly diagnosed glaucoma patients (mean age 64.7 11.1 years, 51.5% male) compared to no noticeable increase in the control group (mean difference: 0.04 logits, P = 0.7) who received only usual care.
Intervention participants receiving the Glaucoma Australia educational intervention experienced a statistically significant decrease in anxiety compared to controls (-0.60 logits, P = 0.02) in a study of 101 newly diagnosed glaucoma patients.
No between-group difference was found in Eye-Drop Satisfaction Questionnaire scores between newly diagnosed glaucoma patients receiving the Glaucoma Australia educational intervention and those receiving usual care, in a randomized clinical trial of 101 patients.
The study was a multicentre Australia-wide randomized clinical trial involving 101 newly diagnosed glaucoma patients randomized 1:1 to an intervention group or a control group.
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