Study design and population
This was a prospective interventional study that was conducted at the
outpatient pediatric clinics at a university teaching hospital in Saudi
Arabia. The study included only parents, aged 20 years or older, and who
are fluent Arabic (native language) as the primary language of the
studied educational tools. Participants were selected by convenient
sampling while visiting the pediatric clinics, and each subject was
randomly assigned to either conventional arm group or video-guided
group. Subjects who were approached in weeks 1, 2, 7, and 8 of the study
and were allocated to the conventional arm group, while the subjects
involved in the second video-based arm group were approached in the
other period (weeks 3-6). Noteworthy, none of them were scheduled to
have LP on them or their siblings.
The conventional arm was the verbal explanation (Appendix I) that is
being given on a routine basis for parents of children undergoing LP in
the pediatric emergency department. In contrast, in the second
video-based arm group, we utilized a standardized video on this group
that contains the same information as the conventional arm, with
streaming of graphic depictions
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2gm_iL5ZQE&t=95s or the
shortcut: https://bit.ly/2mG12q0 ).
The verbal and video-recorded information were standardized as per the
multiprofessional discussions between the pediatric intensive care
(PICU), the pediatric infectious disease (PID), the pediatric neurology,
and the pediatric emergency department (ED) teams within our
institution.