Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: a Prospective Single-center Quantitative Survey Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 220
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Patients' understanding of comfort and engagement with using digital services for self- management of their disease
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims to explore patients' use of digital services for self-management of their health following major surgery at Jessa Hospital. Besides this, the study evaluates patients' ability to process and critically assess health information during recovery, their understanding of health concepts and risk factors, and their perception of data security and control over personal health information. Additionally, the study aims to examine patients' motivation to use digital services, their access to and trust in reliable digital health resources, and how well these services meet their individual needs. Furthermore, the study assesses the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health tools in a post-operative setting, as well as evaluating the digital readiness of patients after surgery.
Detailed Description
Digital health technologies are transforming healthcare, offering new ways to improve patient outcomes and enhance efficiency. Remote clinical monitoring (RCM), which uses digital technologies such as wearable devices and mobile apps to monitor patients outside of the traditional healthcare settings such as a hospital, holds significant potential for supporting post-operative care, especially in the context of faster hospital discharge after major surgery. Major surgery involves procedures on organ systems, such as cancer resections, organ transplants, and lung or abdominal surgeries. However, despite their promise, the successful implementation of these technologies into clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of the perspectives of the end user, being the patient. Patients' comfort, engagement, and perceptions about digital health solutions, such as self-management tools and remote monitoring pathways, are essential to ensuring these technologies are both effective and widely accepted.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Surgical patients
- •>18 years old, Undergone major surgery at Jessa Hospital Hasselt
Exclusion Criteria
- •Unable to provide informed consent or request to not participate in the study
- •Cognitively incapable of understanding the study
- •No understanding of the Dutch language
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Patients' understanding of comfort and engagement with using digital services for self- management of their disease
Time Frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
The patients' understanding of comfort and engagement with using digital services for self- management of their disease after major surgery will be evaluated using scale 4 of the eHLQ.
Secondary Outcomes
- Ability of patients to use technology to process and critically evaluate health information(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Patients' understanding of health concepts, their health status, and risk factors(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Patients' perception of data security and control over personal health data(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health by means of implementation outcome measures AIM, IAM, and FIM(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Patients' motivation to use digital services for managing postoperative health(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- External validation of the digital health readiness questionnaire(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Patients' access to and trust in reliable digital health services(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- The extent to which digital health services meet patients' individual needs and preferences(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
- Digital readiness(During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery)
Investigators
Stessel Björn
Professor, Dr
Jessa Hospital