Tailored Internet Information Supply for Patients

Headache Clinical Trial

Official title:

Study of the Quality of Self-Diagnosis by Headache Patients Getting Tailored Internet Information

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Unknown status

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00746408
• Other study ID #: GW Diss 3000490
• Status: Unknown status
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 2, 2008
• Last updated: June 15, 2009
• Start date: January 2009
• Est. completion date: September 2009

Study information

• Verified date: June 2009
• Source: Health & Life Sciences University, Tryol
• Contact: Wilfried Honekamp, MSc & Dipl.-Inform.
• Phone: +49 (0) 178 1604553
• Email: wilfried.honekamp[@]umit.at
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Medical expert systems in combination with portal searching meta-search engines are exploited to provide reliable patient-tailored information. A prototype of a web-based information system has been developed and is to be evaluated. Its aim is to answer the decisive question whether expert system guided internet meta-search provides a better information supply for patients seeking health information online then this is possible by using ordinary search engines or health portals. The research does neither investigate the influence of ethical nor legal aspects of internet health information supply.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Unknown status
• Enrollment: 500
• Est. completion date: September 2009
• Est. primary completion date: September 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 18 and 75

• Suffers at least occasionally from headaches

• Has internet access

• Has not obtained a medical diagnosis (concerning this headache) by a physician, yet

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age under 18

• Age over 75

• Does never suffer from headaches

• Has no internet access

• Has already gotten a medical diagnosis for her/his headaches

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Headache

Intervention

Other:
• Expert system guided tailored information
The prototype is realised by a web-based information system. The HTML web-interface guides the user through the search process by querying the information demand. This is done by an integrated expert system. The expert system uses a rule based inference to determine an internal diagnosis. Based on this internal diagnosis the system searches quality labeled websites and presents relevant information to the user.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Austria	Health & Life Sciences University (UMIT)	Hall in Tyrol	Tyrol

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Health & Life Sciences University, Tryol	Bremen University of Applied Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Conformity of self-diagnosis and medical diagnosis		After medical diagnoses has been received

External Links

•   Health & Life Sciences University (UMIT) Tyrol, Austria
•   The study website
•   University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany