LifeSkills Video Training in Patients About to Receive an Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (AICD)

will view the 3 completed sections of the video/workbook

This exploratory intervention first met in a focus group with healthcare professionals and another focus group with patients who already had received an automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator to learn more about what video and accompanying workbook material it would be helpful for patients to receive pre-inplantation. Another focus group was held with post-implantation patients asking them what additional knowledge would have been helpful. Three sections of the video with accompanying workbook were then produced and given to pre-inplantation patients. A focus group was then held with these patients after their procedure to ask them what had and had not proved helpful.