Impact of Personalized Interventions to Raise Teleconsultation Awareness in EHPAD

Impact of Personalized Interventions to Raise Teleconsultation Awareness: The Case of the Cicat-Occitanie Network and Healthcare Professionals in Lozère's EHPADs

The cicat-occitanie network offers expertise for health professionals concerning wound care, in particular through teleconsultations. This study aimed to understand the obstacles reported by healthcare professionals in Lozere's EHPAD related to the use of this network. This cluster randomized controlled trial also sought to evaluate the effect of personalized intervention for each EHPAD on the use of this network.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Wound Healing Disorder
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Personalized interventions regarding the Cicat-Occitanie network

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1612

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Montpellier, France, 34295
    • Uhmontpellier

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

All residents of Lozère's EHPADs

Description

Inclusion criteria:

- Be a resident in Lozère's EHPAD

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient who reject the study protocol

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
EHPAD with personalized interventions; EHPAD with personalized interventions.	Other: Personalized interventions regarding the Cicat-Occitanie network; First of all, healthcare professionals from EHPAD in the intervention arm were invited by email to answer a closed questionnaire. It was built by the authors, on Google forms, and consisted of 11 questions divided into 2 sections. Section 1 collected data about the participants. In section 2, they were asked to score from 0 to 4 (ranging from "not at all "to" a lot ") the various obstacles to teleconsultations reported by the literature.
EHPAD without personalized interventions

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Requests rate for teleconsultations	Requests rate for teleconsultations with the Cicat-Occitanie network by Lozère's EHAPDs. Incidence in resident-year of new requests of teleconsultations from the Cicat-Occitanie network by health professionals from Lozère's EHPADs. Calculated via numbers transmitted by the Cicat-Occitanie network 3 months after the intervention and the number of residents in each EHPAD.	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Human obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations	Human obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations with the Cicat-Occitanie network reported by health professionals in Lozère's EHPAD Rating of the different human obstacles from 0 to 4 (not at all to a lot) by the health professionals in EHPAD of Lozère. This was collected through an online questionnaire.	4 months
Organizational obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations	Organizational obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations from the Cicat-Occitanie network reported by health professionals in Lozère's EHPAD. Rating of the different organizational obstacles from 0 to 4 (not at all to a lot) by the health professionals in EHPAD of Lozère. This was collected through an online questionnaire.	4 months
Economic obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations	Economic obstacles linked to the use of teleconsultations from the Cicat-Occitanie network reported by health professionals in Lozère's EHPAD. Rating of the different obstacles from 0 to 4 (not at all to a lot) by the health professionals in EHPAD of Lozère. This was collected through an online questionnaire.	4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Bastien Paul, University Hospital, Montpellier

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): September 17, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 18, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 18, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): October 28, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 5, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 28, 2021
• Last Verified: October 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: telemedicine; Cluster Randomised Trial
• Other Study ID Numbers: RECHMPL21_0373

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: NC

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No