Yanaihara Atsushi, Ohgi Shirei, Motomura Kenichirou, Yanaihara Takumi
Yanaihara Women's Clinic, 1-26-29 Ofuna, Kamakura, Kanagawa Japan Zip247-0056.
Fertil Res Pract. 2017 Jan 23;3:4. doi: 10.1186/s40738-017-0031-3. eCollection 2017.
Explanations that involve medical care treatment take time. This also applies to explanations of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the field of infertility treatment. This is because the cause of infertility differs from couple to couple, and because the explanations must begin with the mechanism of pregnancy. Recently, explanations facilitated by tablet terminals have been used in the field of medicine. In the present study, the efficacy and problems of explanations facilitated by tablet terminals were evaluated and compared with the explanations of IVF facilitated by paper-based pamphlets.
A total of 249 couples were asked to read a paper-based pamphlet explaining IVF treatment, while 252 couples were asked to view an explanation on a tablet terminal. The patients then answered a seven-item questionnaire. The answers to the questionnaire were based on a three-point scale, and statistical analysis was performed with the Mann-Whitney test.
Patients responded that the explanation facilitated by the tablet terminal was significantly easier to understand for all seven questionnaire items ( <0.05). The answer 'I did not understand' was selected for the items related to 'The treatment fees' (4.8% of answers) and 'Things to take note of, such as consultation times' (6.7% of answers).
While patients generally did not understand the mechanism of pregnancy, explanations of IVF treatment facilitated by a tablet terminal were found to be more effective than paper-based explanations, although there is room for improvement.
涉及医疗护理治疗的解释需要时间。这也适用于不孕症治疗领域中体外受精（IVF）的解释。这是因为不孕的原因因夫妇而异，并且解释必须从怀孕机制开始。最近，平板电脑终端辅助的解释已在医学领域得到应用。在本研究中，评估了平板电脑终端辅助解释的效果和问题，并与纸质宣传册辅助的体外受精解释进行了比较。
共249对夫妇被要求阅读一份解释体外受精治疗的纸质宣传册，而252对夫妇被要求在平板电脑终端上观看解释。然后患者回答一份包含七个项目的问卷。问卷答案基于三点量表，并采用曼-惠特尼检验进行统计分析。
对于所有七个问卷项目，患者都表示平板电脑终端辅助的解释明显更容易理解（<0.05）。对于与“治疗费用”相关的项目（答案的4.8%）和“需要注意的事项，如咨询时间”（答案的6.7%），选择了“我不理解”的答案。
虽然患者通常不理解怀孕机制，但发现平板电脑终端辅助的体外受精治疗解释比纸质解释更有效，尽管仍有改进空间。
