Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Urology
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Urology</strong> aims to publish high-quality papers related to all aspects of Urology. By not excluding papers based on novelty, this journal facilitates the research and wishes to publish papers as long as they are technically correct and scientifically motivated. The journal also encourages the submission of useful reports of negative results. This is a quality controlled, OPEN peer-reviewed, open-access INTERNATIONAL journal.</p>Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Urologyen-USAsian Journal of Research and Reports in UrologyComparing Anxiety Levels and Pain Scores for Video-assisted and Traditional Informed Consent in Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy: A Prospective, Randomised, Controlled Study
https://journalajrru.com/index.php/AJRRU/article/view/112
<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Traditionally, informed consent involves verbal and/or written material provided to the patient by a treating clinician. Multimedia interventions improve patients’ knowledge and understanding during the informed consent process. This study aimed to compare pre-procedural anxiety levels and pain scores between educational video-assisted informed consent and traditional informed consent for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) at our centre.</p> <p><strong>Study Design: </strong>This was a prospective, randomised, controlled study conducted at two centres.</p> <p><strong>Place and Duration of Study:</strong> The study was conducted in two Urology centre Department of Urology, Penang General Hospital and Department of Urology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur between 15<sup>th</sup> May 2022 till 15<sup>th</sup> October 2022.</p> <p><strong>Methodology:</strong> The study group consisted of all adult patients undergoing ESWL in. both centres. A video presentation explaining the ESWL procedure was developed in two languages, and group allocation was randomised using a computer-based random number generator. Anxiety levels were assessed using the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) questionnaire, visual analogue scale, and numerical rating scale used to collect data on pain scores.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 54 respondents, with a predominance of male patients (57.4%) and the majority of patients having completed secondary school education (53.7%). In comparing the two groups, the video-assisted respondents exhibited significantly lower anxiety scores regarding the procedure than those in the traditional group (p< 0.05). However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of pain scores, both pre- and post-procedural.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Video-assisted informed consent can reduce procedure-related patient anxiety levels before ESWL; however, there was no difference in pain scores between the two consent methods. patients.</p>Nurul Zubaidah Shahul Hameed Devindran Manoharan Lee Say BobSusan Woo
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