What factors are related to understanding a stereoscopic 3D diabetes educational video in seniors?

Abstract

The rise of three-dimensional imaging technology and products offers a new avenue for patient education to older adults. This study investigated older adults’ perception of a three-dimensional health education video on diabetes, and factors associated with understanding the video. Twenty-one older adults without a history of diabetes watched a short diabetes educational video on a stereoscopic display. They perceived the video as helpful, valuable, and exciting, but too fast. Better understanding of the video is associated with having higher background knowledge of diabetes and greater vocabulary. Ethnicity is also a potential factor. Older adults may choose narrative information over graphic information to process a three-dimensional multimedia presentation.

Keywords::

• education
• multimedia
• video

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank those concerned for the support of participant recruitment, including Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.

Disclosure

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.