Serious Cartoons
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Serious Cartoons
IRAS ID
244676
Contact name
Paul Liam Harrison
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Tayside Health Board
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Problem to be addressed: The current provision of patient information for people with glaucoma is too complex for many patients. This PhD project is concerned with investigating the relative effectiveness of providing patient information in the form of comics over existing formats. It also will investigate whether co-designing (group design) those comics will be more advantageous than not co-designing them. It will do this by interviewing people with glaucoma about comics and patient education materials before and after co-designing patient information comics with other people who have glaucoma.
Hypothesis: Patients with glaucoma will prefer, and be more engaged with, patient information delivered in the form of patient-designed comics compared with existing formats and comics produced without patient involvement.
Why is this study needed? This PhD project hopes to address inadequacy in the accessibility of take-home glaucoma information and find a new, more widely accessible format for patient information to be given to patients in. A pilot study with non-patient participants drew encouraging, yet inconclusive results: it is therefore necessary to investigate with the actual users’, glaucoma patients’, involvement.
Study design: Semi-structured interview. Co-design.
Planned intervention: A co-designed patient information comic.
Outcome measures: Patients’ attitudes to a non-patient-designed comic will be compared to patients’ attitudes to the co-designed comics, tracked with qualitative thematic analysis.
Participant recruitment: Eligible glaucoma patients attending the glaucoma clinic at Ninewells Hospital will asked to participate by their doctor.
Use of results: The results will be used to inform later research, to increase awareness to a novel patient infomation format, and in a PhD dissertation.
Duration of intervention period and follow up: The project is expected to run for 12 months
Analysis: Interviews will be thematically analysed.REC name
West of Scotland REC 4
REC reference
18/WS/0081
Date of REC Opinion
19 Jun 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion