The Development of an Educational Video on Blood Pressure Measurement for Pharmacy Students

Samieh Farahani; Imaneh Farahani; Bjoern B Burckhardt; Karin Monser; Stephanie Laeer

doi:10.2147/AMEP.S302728

The Development of an Educational Video on Blood Pressure Measurement for Pharmacy Students

Adv Med Educ Pract. 2021 Jun 15:12:655-663. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S302728. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Samieh Farahani¹, Imaneh Farahani¹, Bjoern B Burckhardt¹, Karin Monser², Stephanie Laeer¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
² Multimedia Center, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.

Abstract

Introduction: High blood pressure is an important worldwide health issue. Pharmacists can perform multifaceted tasks in hypertension management such as measuring blood pressure. In a time where the use of educational videos in health professions education has increased, an educational video might be an option for teaching blood pressure measurement skills to pharmacy students. This project aimed to develop an educational video tailored to pharmacy students on oscillometric blood pressure measurement in a community pharmacy setting that can be used as a self-instruction video.

Methods: The video was created with support from the university's multimedia center. The video development was roughly divided into pre-production, production, and post-production. Students' satisfaction with and perception of the video was surveyed.

Results: An 11-minute 33-second self-instruction video in the German language on proper oscillometric blood pressure measurement tailored for pharmacy students was created. Along with descriptive slides, the video delineates the necessary steps of blood pressure measurement in a community pharmacy setting in a role-play, to support students in communication with the patient. Results of a survey on the satisfaction and perception of the video from thirty-seven pharmacy students were included in the analysis and revealed that the video was well accepted by pharmacy students. Moreover, approximately 95% responded that instructional videos should be included in future pharmacy education.

Conclusion: We successfully developed an educational video on oscillometric blood pressure measurement for a community pharmacy setting. This work is a valuable form of support for faculty members, who intend to develop educational videos. This might be of interest especially during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, where distance learning has become highly relevant.

Keywords: blood pressure measurement; educational video; pharmacy; pharmacy education; pharmacy students; self-instruction video.

Grants and funding

We gratefully acknowledge that the publication fees were funded by “Universitaets-und Landesbibliothek” of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. The funding organization had no role in the design, analysis and interpretation of the data; in writing the manuscript; and in the decision to publish the manuscript.