Does an additional virtual interactive session increase the impact of digital educational material given to epilepsy patients? A randomized controlled trial
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Aditi Sinha; Mamta Singh; Lumchio Levis Murry; Raunak Sepat; Shivam Pandey; Jasmine Parihar
- Source
- Seizure. 92:252-256
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Epilepsy
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
law.invention
Single centre
Primary outcome
Caregivers
Neurology
Quality of life
Randomized controlled trial
Seizures
law
Intervention (counseling)
Quality of Life
Physical therapy
medicine
Humans
Neurology (clinical)
Session (computer science)
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1059-1311
PURPOSE To study if an additional virtual interactive epilepsy education session improves post-test epilepsy knowledge scores more than providing digital educational material alone in persons with epilepsy (PWE) and caregivers. METHODS In a single centre, open labelled, randomised controlled trial, PWE and caregivers were randomised to receive digital epilepsy educational material alone or an additional virtual interactive epilepsy session along with the digital educational material. Pre-test knowledge scores were compared with post-test knowledge scores. A difference between the post-test scores in the two arms was the primary outcome. This was assessed one week after the epilepsy education had been received. Secondary outcomes were the difference between the two arms in quality of life and breakthrough seizure frequencies at the end of one month. RESULTS A total of 130 participants (PWE+caregivers) were randomised of which 66 were in the control arm and 64 in the intervention arm. Baseline demographic and epilepsy characteristics were comparable in both arms except for the higher age of PWE in the intervention arm. Post-test knowledge scores improved significantly from the pre-test knowledge scores in both control and intervention arms (p