Social Robot Support for Healthcare Professionals

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Frailty at Older Adults

• Registration Number: NCT03857789
• Lead Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center

Brief 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.

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 Timeline

• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Study First Submitted: 2019-02-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-02-27
• Study First Posted: 2019-02-28
• Study Start: 2019-04-30
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-24
• Study Completion: 2020-02-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-06
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

• Suspicion of need for quality of life support

Exclusion Criteria

• Psychiatric Disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Consumer Quality index (CQ-index)	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?".

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Radboud university medical center; 🇳🇱 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands