Social Robot Support for Healthcare Professionals

Frailty at Older Adults Clinical Trial

Official title:

Supporting Health Care Professionals With a Social Robot in an Integrated Care Pathway: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03857789
• Other study ID #: 2018-5019
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 30, 2019
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: Radboud University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 24, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 70 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Suspicion of need for quality of life support

Exclusion Criteria:

• Psychiatric Disorders

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Frailty
• Frailty at Older Adults

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaire
A 40 question frailty questionnaire.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Netherlands	Radboud university medical center	Nijmegen	Gelderland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Radboud University	Delft University of Technology

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Consumer Quality index (CQ-index)	The CQ-index records the quality of care from a patient perspective using answers to questions like "Would you recommend this outpatient clinic to your family?", "How did you experience the communication with your caregiver?" and "Were you adequately informed?".	4 Months