Education of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Mobile Virtual Patient Environment: Protocol for a Multicenter Pseudorandomized Controlled Trial

Panagiotis Antoniou   ¹ , PhD ;   Eleni Dafli   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   George Giannakoulas   ² , MD, PhD ;   Gaukhar Igimbayeva   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Olga Visternichan   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Serhii Kyselov   ⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Ivetta Lykhasenko   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Dmytro Lashkul   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Ilia Nadareishvili   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Sergo Tabagari   ⁷ , Prof Dr ;   Panagiotis D Bamidis   ¹ , PhD

¹ Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

² 1st Cardiology Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

³ Orhun Medical Clinic, Almaty, Kazakhstan

⁴ Internal Medicine Department, Karaganda Medical University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan

⁵ Department of Internal Diseases No.1 and Simulation Medicine, Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

⁶ Department of Propedeutics of Internal Diseases, Radiation Diagnostics and Radiation, Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

⁷ AIETI Medical School, David Tvildiani Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia