Development and Evaluation of a Physician-Targeted Video to Promote HIV Screening

Abstract

Our study found that a video is an acceptable HIV testing promotion medium for physicians. Our video improved physician HIV testing knowledge and attitudes, overcoming key barriers to HIV testing.

Online Patient Education Materials for Orthognathic Surgery Fail to Meet Readability and Quality Standards

“…The DISCERN instrument, developed in 1998, might be considered outdated because it was developed for rating written consumer health information and not images, videos, or other media. Educational videos have been shown to improve patient knowledge and attitudes in medicine, 38 but their utility in orthognathic surgery has largely been unstudied. Hegarty et al 39 reviewed the most popular orthognathic surgery videos on YouTube and found that 42% of videos focused on personal experiences, of which 62% described positive experiences.…”