Survey on the Future of Telemedicine in the Daily Care of Cardiology Patients.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Antwerp
- Enrollment
- 230
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Questionnaire to assess enablers and barriers to use telemedicine
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The Cardiology research group at the Jessa Hospital Hasselt and the University Hospital Antwerp (in collaboration with the University of Hasselt and the University of Antwerp) is conducting research into remote patient monitoring (telemedicine). Digital technologies such as smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches,... make it easier to monitor the health of cardio patients between consultations. This would allow for faster intervention when necessary, but consultations can also (partially) take place remotely. For this study, we are looking for patients who have already used such technologies to remotely monitor their health and patients who have never used it before.
We would like to find out how these patients feel about telemedicine by means of a questionnaire. This will take approximately 5 to 10 minutes. In this way, we can gain a better understanding of these patients' views and expectations regarding telemedicine. In this way we can further improve healthcare and develop more options to follow up patients even better from your home environment.
Detailed Description
The main aim of this study is to evaluate the overall perception of cardiology patients concerning telemedicine features and services in two patient groups: patients who had already any kind of telemedicine follow-up and a small population which never made us of a telemedicine follow-up.
More specifically the aims are:
- to assess the enablers and barriers to the use of telemedicine.
- to explore the willingness to pay for such telemedicine tools.
This is a multicentric, prospective study performed at Jessa Hospital Hasselt, Belgium and Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), Belgium in which a newly developed questionnaire (Appendix 1) will be used. It takes about 5-10 minutes to fill in the survey. The questionnaire contains 6 parts:
- General information on the patients and the use of telemedicine tools
- Questions about the importance of functions and services in telemedicine tools
- Questions about enablers to use telemedicine
- Questions on the ease-of-use of such technologies
- Questions on barriers using telemedicine
- Questions on the willingness to pay for such telemedicine tools.
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
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients who have had a follow-up at the cardiology department of Jessa Hospital Hasselt or UZA
- •Participants over the age of 18 years
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participants who are not able to read or fully understand Dutch
Arms & Interventions
Intervention group
240 patients will receive the questionnaire to assess patients vision on telemedicine.
Intervention: Survey (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Questionnaire to assess enablers and barriers to use telemedicine
Time Frame: day 1
to assess the enablers and barriers to the use of telemedicine.
Questionnaire to assess willingness to pay for telemedicine tools
Time Frame: day 1
to explore the willingness to pay for such telemedicine tools.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported