Social Robot Support for Healthcare Professionals

NCT ID: NCT03857789

Last Updated: 2020-03-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2020-02-28

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of integrated care pathway steps supported by social robots. Half of the participants will receive regular care, while for the other half a social robot dialogue will be included as part of the pathway step.

Detailed Description

There is a worldwide increasing shortage of adequately trained healthcare personnel, leading to the challenge for society to prevent a future "lack of care". At the same time the number of people requiring healthcare is expanding rapidly, amongst others due to the growing percentage of older adults in the population. New means of supporting the available healthcare professionals are therefore urgently required.

Modern healthcare is often implemented through "integrated care pathways". Certain steps in these pathways involve dialogues with patients. Speaking social robots are increasingly being advertised as supportive for healthcare professionals and may handle certain structured dialogue types, such as questionnaires. Based on previous positive preclinical experiences with social robots interviewing community-dwelling older subjects, the researchers want to investigate the implementation of a social robot in an integrated care pathway in the outpatient clinic.

Conditions

Frailty at Older Adults

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SCREENING
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Regular care

Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The HCP will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.

Group Type: OTHER

Questionnaire

Intervention Type: OTHER

A 40 question frailty questionnaire.

New care

Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The social robot will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Questionnaire

Intervention Type: OTHER

A 40 question frailty questionnaire.

Interventions

Questionnaire

A 40 question frailty questionnaire.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Suspicion of need for quality of life support

Exclusion Criteria

• Psychiatric Disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Delft University of Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Radboud University Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Radboud university medical center

Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Countries

Netherlands

References

Boumans R, van Meulen F, van Aalst W, Albers J, Janssen M, Peters-Kop M, Huisman-de Waal G, van de Poll A, Hindriks K, Neerincx M, Olde Rikkert M. Quality of Care Perceived by Older Patients and Caregivers in Integrated Care Pathways With Interviewing Assistance From a Social Robot: Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Sep 9;22(9):e18787. doi: 10.2196/18787.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 32902387 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

2018-5019

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id