Telehealth in Motor Neurone Disease: a single-centre, randomised controlled feasibility and pilot study of the use of the TiM telehealth system to deliver highly specialised care in Motor Neurone Disease, at a distance
- Conditions
- Subtopic: Motor neurone diseaseDisease: Motor neurone diseaseNervous System DiseasesTopic: Dementias and neurodegenerationMotor Neurone Disease
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN26675465
- Lead Sponsor
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
2019 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31640993/ (added 22/10/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 77
1. Patients aged 18 years or over with ElEscorial clinically definite or clinically probable categories of MND who have attended the MND clinic at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
2. Live within 120 minute drive from Sheffield
The main circumstances where patients or carers will be excluded are those in which individuals would be unable to use the telehealth system or give informed consent.
1. Patients attend another MND care centre in the UK.
2. Significant impairment in decision making capacity preventing informed consent by the subject due to a major mental disorder including frontotemporal dementia.
3. Patient unable to use the system due to physical, intellectual or language difficulties and unwilling to permit carer to operate it on their behalf
4. The patient has no eligible informal carer willing to participate in the trial
5. No available mobile or landline telephone or 3G mobile phone reception at the patient?s home (this is required to use the TiM system)
6. Any other major impairment that may affect their ability to participate in the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility and acceptability; Timepoint(s): End of the trial
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ot provided at time of registration