EEG@HOME (Phase 1 of the Project)

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Epilepsy
• Interventions: Other: Interview

• Registration Number: NCT02408666
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent

Brief Summary

The goal of this project is the development of an EEG-cap (min. 21 electrodes) with user-friendly active dry electrodes that meets the expectations of the users regarding comfort and esthetics, without losing sight of the functional and technical demands for recording high quality EEG signals. The purpose is to use the EEG-cap to investigate clinical neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy). The EEG-cap could also be used at home so that hospital admission in the EMU can be avoided for some patients and an increasing number of patients can be examined.

In Phase 1 of the project epilepsy patients and their family will be interviewed about their personal experiences with the condition, EEG registrations, daily life, ... . In addition EEG-technologists and neurologists will be interviewed about their experience with EEG registrations and what features their dream EEG-cap would have. The purpose is to gain insight in the wishes and expectations of the end users so we can take this into account when designing of the EEG-cap. This interview is anticipated to take approximately 1 hour.

Minimum 5 - maximum 50 patients and their family will be interviewed. Minimum 5 - maximum 50 EEG-technologists or neurologists will be interviewed.

The results of the interviews will be analysed by the design company pilipili nv.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-04
• Primary Completion: 2014-10
• Study Completion: 2014-12
• Study First Submitted: 2015-03-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-03-31
• Study First Posted: 2015-04-03
• Status Verified: 2015-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-12-07
• Last Update Posted: 2015-12-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Epilepsy patient or EEG-technologist or neurologist

Exclusion Criteria

• No experience with EEG

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interview	Interview	Interview of epilepsy patients and their family about their experience with epilepsy, EEG registrations and daily life. Interview of EEG-technologists and neurologists about their experience with EEG registrations and expections when thinking of a ideal EEG-cap.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
User wishes and expectations (questionnaire)	1 hour

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Ghent; 🇧🇪 Ghent, Belgium