Usability Comparison of a mHealth Application for Pre-anesthesia Evaluation Before and After Re-design of User Interface

Anesthesia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Usability Comparison of a mHealth Application for Pre-anesthesia Evaluation Before and After Re-design of User Interface

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04070261
• Other study ID #: 201904098RINC
• Status: Completed
• Start date: October 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Pre-anesthesia assessment is an important part of anesthesiologists daily routine. A thorough assessment leads to an impeccable anesthesia plan. In the past, the department of anesthesiologist in NTUH (National Taiwan University Hospital) utilizes paper assessment form. As government policy leans towards digitization, the department of anesthesiologist in NTUH collaborates with the information technology office to develop an electronic pre-anesthesia assessment system called EVAN, which is an iOS based application (App). EVAN includes an anesthesia patient list, patient EMR (electronic medical record) and pre-anesthesia assessment form. EVAN was online since March, 2018. This is an observational research to investigate the user experience and improve the user interface of EVAN. This research subjects include anesthesiologists from NTUH. This research has three parts: user tasks, questionnaires, and a semi-structured interview. First, the research assistant will record how the user use the App to complete the tasks, which includes video recording and App monitoring. After the tasks is completed, the subject will write a questionnaire. Then the principal investigator will give an interview for feedbacks from the users.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: March 14, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• anesthesiologists in NTUH

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anesthesia
• Usability

Intervention

Other:
• iOS application usability test
user tasks, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	task complete time	the time duration the user needs to complete the user tasks	the duration the user needs to complete the tasks, usually within 10 minutes
Secondary	questionnaire grading	user questionnaire grading	after the user questionnaire completion, usually within 1 minutes