Social Robot Support for Healthcare Professionals

March 6, 2020 updated by: Radboud University Medical Center

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

80

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Netherlands
    • Gelderland
      • Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 6525 GC
        • Radboud University Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

70 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Suspicion of need for quality of life support

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Psychiatric Disorders

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Screening
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Regular care
Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The HCP will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.
Other: Questionnaire
A 40 question frailty questionnaire.
Experimental: New care
Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The social robot will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.
Other: Questionnaire
A 40 question frailty questionnaire.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Consumer Quality index (CQ-index)
Time Frame: 4 Months
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

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Radboud University Medical Center

Collaborators

Delft University of Technology

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 30, 2019

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 24, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

February 28, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 15, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 27, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

February 28, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 9, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2020

Last Verified

February 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2018-5019

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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