Research Article
Video-Assisted Informed Consent for Cataract Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of patients randomly selected for each group.
| Characteristics | Video group () | Control group () |
| Age distribution | | | 50–70, years (%) | 29 (73) | 27 (67) | 71–90, years (%) | 11 (27) | 13 (33) | Sex, female/male (%) | 19/21 (48/52) | 22/18 (55/45) | Preferred language | | | Mandarin (%) | 6 (15) | 10 (25) | Cantonese (%) | 34 (85) | 30 (75) | Highest education level | | | Illiterate (%) | 5 (13) | 4 (10) | Primary education (%) | 27 (67) | 26 (65) | Secondary or higher | 8 (20) | 10 (25) | education (%) | Computer use | | | Rarely/never (%) | 29 (73) | 30 (75) | Often (%) | 11 (27) | 10 (25) |
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