Expanded carrier screening (ECS) is increasingly offered to a broader population and raises challenges of how to best educate and counsel the volume of screened individuals. For this study, we compared three educational tools (brochure, video and comic) about ECS on knowledge and decision making. A convenience online sample of 151 pregnant women was randomized to one of three groups (Video, n = 42; Comic n = 54; Brochure n = 55). Knowledge scores were significantly higher for the comic group compared to the video or the brochure groups (p < .001). No significant differences in preparation for decision making, decisional conflict, or perceptions of shared decision making were identified between the study groups. This study suggests that a comic about ECS may improve patient attention and retention of information. The use of graphic narratives may enable individuals to better understand medical information in general.

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评估临床教育工具以扩大携带者筛查

扩大的携带者筛查 (ECS) 越来越多地提供给更广泛的人群，并提出了如何最好地教育和咨询筛查个体数量的挑战。在这项研究中，我们比较了关于 ECS 知识和决策制定的三种教育工具（小册子、视频和漫画）。151 名孕妇的便利在线样本被随机分配到三组之一（视频，n  = 42；漫画n  = 54；小册子n  = 55）。与视频或小册子组相比，漫画组的知识分数显着更高（p < .001)。研究组之间在决策准备、决策冲突或对共同决策的看法方面没有显着差异。这项研究表明，关于 ECS 的漫画可以提高患者的注意力和信息的保留。使用图形叙述可以使个人更好地理解一般的医疗信息。