Bharath Chakravarthy|Shashank Somasundaram|Jennifer Mogi|Roshan Burns|Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont|Warren Wiechmann|Shahram Lotfipour
Randomized Pilot Trial Measuring Knowledge Acquisition of Opioid Education in Emergency Department Patients using a Novel Media Platform
University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine|University of California, Irvine
background number active opioid analgesic prescriptions risen steadily causing increases nonmedical opioid use addiction overdose insufficient focus patient discharge instructions contributed lack patient awareness regarding dangers opioids study examines whether educational khan academystyle animation discharge instruction dangers safe usage opioid analgesics elicits higher knowledge acquisition current standard care additionally measures feasibility implementing video discharge instruction emergency department ed methods fiftytwo englishspeaking patients aged 18 years older receiving opioid prescription enrolled study patients randomized 2 groups standard care group received verbal instruction informational sheet whereas video animation group received 6minute video proper usage opioids addition standard care video content sourced samhsagov administered within ed prior discharge groups received 26question test regarding dangers safe usage opioids immediately education unpaired test compared knowledge acquisition 2 groups results fiftyfour patients approached 52 patients enrolled 27 standard group 25 animation group standard care group averaged 65 knowledge acquisition 16826 correct whereas animation group averaged 82 acquisition 21226 correct video animation significantly increased patient knowledge acquisition opioid medications risks proper usage disposal p 001 conclusion concluded medical knowledge acquisition improved video animation group compared current standard care p 001 also concluded feasible implement novel media platform educate patients receiving opioid analgesics ed 961