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- Using plain language in patient education helps adolescent and young adult males with cancer better understand sperm banking, leading to informed decisions.
- A multidisciplinary clinical team created a patient education booklet targeted at AYA males, integrating it into the planned education process at McMaster Children's Hospital in Ontario.
- The goal of the booklet is to serve as a teaching tool for health professionals, ultimately promoting greater awareness and utilization of sperm banking for fertility preservation.
Article Abstract
Writing in plain language makes it easier for patients to read, understand, and make informed decisions about sperm banking. Greater attention to the issue and properly designed educational brochures for use by nurses in oncology and reproductive health is of evident importance but of unknown impact. A multidisciplinary clinical team followed an evidence-based, patient-centered approach to develop "plain language" patient education materials about sperm banking for adolescent and young adult (AYA) males with cancer. A patient education booklet was produced and implemented as part of the planned patient education for AYA male oncology patients at McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The patient education booklet for use by health professionals as a teaching tool to facilitate discussion with AYA males has been produced with the hope that it will contribute to better informed decision making regarding sperm banking and increased use of this technology for fertility preservation.
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