Patient RightsNCT07772999
Effect of Comic-Based Education on Attitudes Toward Patient Rights
A study testing Comic-Based Patient Rights Education and Routine Patient Rights Education in people with Patient Rights, run by Abant Izzet Baysal University.
Trial summary
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether comic-based education improves attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adults receiving inpatient care. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Patient Rights
- What is being tested?
- Comic-Based Patient Rights Education and Routine Patient Rights Education
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 76 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 1 Sep 2026to 30 Oct 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Aged 18 years or older.
- Hospitalized in an internal medicine or surgical clinic.
- Able to read and write in Turkish.
- No diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
- No visual, hearing, speech, or communication impairment that would prevent reading and understanding the educational material or completing the study questionnaires.
- Willing to participate in the study and provide written informed consent.
Who cannot join
- Requiring emergency medical intervention.
- Being hemodynamically unstable.
- Being in a critical clinical condition.
- Having a clinical condition that, in the judgment of the clinical team, makes participation in the educational intervention or data collection inappropriate.
Trial locations and contacts
No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
About this study
Official title: Effect of Comic-Based Education on Attitudes Toward Patient Rights: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether comic-based education improves attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adults receiving inpatient care. The main question is whether patients who receive comic-based patient rights education have more positive attitudes toward using their patient rights than patients who receive routine verbal and written patient rights education.
Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will receive an approximately 15-minute, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure. The control group will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education, consisting of verbal and written information provided by clinical nurses for approximately 15 minutes. Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be measured before and immediately after the education in both groups.
Read the detailed description
This prospective, parallel-group randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effect of comic-based patient rights education on attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adult inpatients. Participants will be assigned to the intervention or control group using block randomization with a 1:1 allocation ratio.
Participants in the intervention group will receive a single, approximately 15-minute, individual face-to-face educational session using a comic-based patient rights brochure. The brochure was developed based on the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation and presents patient rights through visual narratives and short patient-nurse dialogues. The educational content includes access to health services, obtaining information, choosing or changing healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals, privacy, consent, access to and correction of medical records, respect and dignity, visiting and accompanying persons, respect for religious beliefs, and rights related to applications, complaints, and legal action.
Participants in the control group will receive routine patient rights education provided in the hospital. This education will be delivered individually by clinical nurses using verbal explanations and the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes.
Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be assessed in both groups before the educational intervention and immediately after completion of the education using the Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale. The primary analysis will compare post-intervention scores between the groups while controlling for baseline scores.
- Conditions
- Patient Rights
- Being tested
- Comic-Based Patient Rights Education, Routine Patient Rights Education
- Keywords
- Patient Education, Comic-Based Education, Patient Attitudes, Educational Brochure, Inpatients, Health Education
- Medical subject headings
- Health Education
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Comic-Based Patient Rights EducationBehavioural
Participants will receive a single, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure developed in accordance with the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation. The education will be delivered by the researcher and will last approximately 15 minutes. The brochure presents patient rights through visual narratives and short patient-nurse dialogues and will be provided to the participant after the education.
Routine Patient Rights EducationBehavioural
Participants will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education provided individually by clinical nurses. The education will consist of verbal information supported by the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Comic-Based Patient Rights Education | Experimental | Participants assigned to this arm will receive a single, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure developed in accordance with the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation. The education will be delivered by the researcher and will last approximately 15 minutes. The brochure will be provided to the participant after the education. Receives: Behavioral: Comic-Based Patient Rights Education |
| Routine Patient Rights Education | Active comparator | Participants assigned to this arm will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education. The education will be provided individually by clinical nurses through verbal information supported by the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes. Receives: Behavioral: Routine Patient Rights Education |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Post-Intervention Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale Score
Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be assessed using the Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale. The scale consists of 29 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale. Total scores range from 29 to 145, with higher scores indicating more positive attitudes toward using patient rights. The primary analysis will compare post-intervention scores between the intervention and control groups while adjusting for baseline scores.
Measured: Immediately after the approximately 15-minute educational intervention
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted19 Aug 2026
- Study start1 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion30 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion30 Oct 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Patient RightsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Abant Izzet Baysal UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to one of two parallel groups using block randomization with a block size of four. The intervention group will receive comic-based patient rights education, while the control group will receive routine verbal and written patient rights education. Participants will remain in their assigned group throughout the study.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 76 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Abant Izzet Baysal University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Lutfiye Nur Uzun, Cumhuriyet University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07772999
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- COMIC-2026-01
- Status last verified
- Aug 2026
- First submitted
- 14 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 19 Aug 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 19 Aug 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Effect of Comic-Based Education on Attitudes Toward Patient Rights: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07772999
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- COMIC-2026-01
- Conditions
- Patient Rights
- Keywords
- Patient Education, Comic-Based Education, Patient Attitudes, Educational Brochure, Inpatients, Health Education
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 76 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Abant Izzet Baysal UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- 30 Sep 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 30 Oct 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 19 Aug 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether comic-based education improves attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adults receiving inpatient care. The main question is whether patients who receive comic-based patient rights education have more positive attitudes toward using their patient rights than patients who receive routine verbal and written patient rights education.
Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will receive an approximately 15-minute, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure. The control group will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education, consisting of verbal and written information provided by clinical nurses for approximately 15 minutes. Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be measured before and immediately after the education in both groups.
Detailed description
This prospective, parallel-group randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effect of comic-based patient rights education on attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adult inpatients. Participants will be assigned to the intervention or control group using block randomization with a 1:1 allocation ratio.
Participants in the intervention group will receive a single, approximately 15-minute, individual face-to-face educational session using a comic-based patient rights brochure. The brochure was developed based on the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation and presents patient rights through visual narratives and short patient-nurse dialogues. The educational content includes access to health services, obtaining information, choosing or changing healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals, privacy, consent, access to and correction of medical records, respect and dignity, visiting and accompanying persons, respect for religious beliefs, and rights related to applications, complaints, and legal action.
Participants in the control group will receive routine patient rights education provided in the hospital. This education will be delivered individually by clinical nurses using verbal explanations and the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes.
Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be assessed in both groups before the educational intervention and immediately after completion of the education using the Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale. The primary analysis will compare post-intervention scores between the groups while controlling for baseline scores.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to one of two parallel groups using block randomization with a block size of four. The intervention group will receive comic-based patient rights education, while the control group will receive routine verbal and written patient rights education. Participants will remain in their assigned group throughout the study.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Comic-Based Patient Rights Education | Experimental | Behavioral: Comic-Based Patient Rights EducationParticipants assigned to this arm will receive a single, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure developed in accordance with the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation. The education will be delivered by the researcher and will last approximately 15 minutes. The brochure will be provided to the participant after the education. |
| Routine Patient Rights Education | Active comparator | Behavioral: Routine Patient Rights EducationParticipants assigned to this arm will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education. The education will be provided individually by clinical nurses through verbal information supported by the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (6 listed)
- Aged 18 years or older.
- Hospitalized in an internal medicine or surgical clinic.
- Able to read and write in Turkish.
- No diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
- No visual, hearing, speech, or communication impairment that would prevent reading and understanding the educational material or completing the study questionnaires.
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Requiring emergency medical intervention.
- Being hemodynamically unstable.
- Being in a critical clinical condition.
- Having a clinical condition that, in the judgment of the clinical team, makes participation in the educational intervention or data collection inappropriate.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Comic-Based Patient Rights EducationParticipants will receive a single, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure developed in accordance with the Turkish Patient Rights Regulation. The education will be delivered by the researcher and will last approximately 15 minutes. The brochure presents patient rights through visual narratives and short patient-nurse dialogues and will be provided to the participant after the education. | Behavioural | Comic-Based Patient Rights Education |
| Routine Patient Rights EducationParticipants will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education provided individually by clinical nurses. The education will consist of verbal information supported by the institution's standard written educational materials and will last approximately 15 minutes. | Behavioural | Routine Patient Rights Education |
Primary outcome
Post-Intervention Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale Score
Time frame: Immediately after the approximately 15-minute educational intervention
Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be assessed using the Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale. The scale consists of 29 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale. Total scores range from 29 to 145, with higher scores indicating more positive attitudes toward using patient rights. The primary analysis will compare post-intervention scores between the intervention and control groups while adjusting for baseline scores.
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 19 Aug 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Comic-Based Patient Rights Education and Routine Patient Rights Education in people with Patient Rights, run by Abant Izzet Baysal University.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 19 Aug 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Lütfiye Nur Uzun, Associate Professor (05441088353, nuruzun53@gmail.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Post-Intervention Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale Score (time frame: Immediately after the approximately 15-minute educational intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 19 Aug 2026.