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Videos designed to help patients understand and manage chronic rheumatologic diseases can lead to gains in clarity about the disease duration, symptoms, medications, and the importance of regular visits with a physician.
A study published in a recent issue of Arthritis Care & Research looks at the development and impact of three educational videos for patients with a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis (OA), osteoporosis (OP) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).1 The videos are each about 20 minutes in length and were recorded in both English and Spanish language versions. The developers used an edutainment model that is particularly suited for patients who have low or limited health literacy, have limited access to written materials about their condition or whose reading ability is not high enough to fully comprehend written patient information.
“Knowledge about a condition plays a big role in successful disease management,” says Maria Lopez-Olivo, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and a study author.