2.3. Materials

The intervention video was a three-minute video from About. com about palliative care (http://video.about.com/healthcareers/What-Is-Palliative-Care.htm). In this video, a doctor discusses what palliative care is, who provides and receives it, and where patients can receive palliative care. The physician is shown interacting with a diverse range of patients in the hospital including older and younger patients and patients with varying levels of frailty. The physician speaks directly to the camera, and written information appears simultaneously on the screen to complement the message the physician is discussing. A written palliative care information page from Vanderbilt Health (http://www.vanderbilthealth.com/palliativecare/21568) was adapted to have the same information as the video (see Appendix A). The control video consisted of a three-minute educational video about the Mediterranean Diet and health (http://video.about.com/nutrition/What-Is-the-Mediterranean-Diet-.htm), while the control information page provided participants with information about the Mediterranean Diet and health (http://cholesterol.about.com/od/cholesteroldiets/a/mediterranean.htm).