App Teaches Doctors to Diagnose Skin Cancer

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Carcinoma; Melanoma (Skin)
• Interventions: Other: Dermloop Learn

• Registration Number: NCT05661370
• Lead Sponsor: Herlev Hospital

Brief Summary

This study aimed to examine if self-paced learning with a novel digital patient-case-based educational platform can increase primary care physicians' diagnostic accuracy of malignant and benign skin lesions on both the level of benign/malignant and the diagnosis level. Secondarily the study aimed to investigate the time spent in reaching this change in proficiency.

Detailed Description

Participants were given a questionnaire and an initial Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire (MCQ) to test their diagnostic skills regardining skin and mole cancer and the most common differential diagnoses.

Participants in the Intervention group was then given access to an educational mobile application (App) for 8 days and asked to diagnose 500 patient cases. The participants did so at their own leisure and time.

After 8 days they were asked to abstain from using the App for another 8 days (wash out period) and were then given a Final Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire (MCQ).

Participants of the control group received no intervention nor education during the 16 days of waiting before they took the final Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-11-15
• Primary Completion: 2022-01-15
• Study Completion: 2022-08-15
• Study First Submitted: 2022-12-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-12-13
• Study First Posted: 2022-12-22
• Status Verified: 2023-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-07-21
• Last Update Posted: 2023-07-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3

Inclusion Criteria

• Primary Care Physician who works in General Practice

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Dermloop Learn	Access to educational mobile application for 8 days, diagnosing 500 digital patient-cases.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Multiple-Choice Questionnaire (MCQ) Score	Before and immediately after intervention (On average 19 days after enrollment)	Participants are given a test before and after the intervention using a skin cancer MCQ test with 12 digital-patient cases. A higher score means better diagnostic proficiency. The primary outcome is the change of this score.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Diagnostic proficiencies	During the 8 days of access to the educational mobile application.	Sensitivity, Specificity and Positive Predictive Value of the participants in the intervention group, calculated on their cases seen in the educational mobile application.
Time spend	During the 8 days of access to the educational mobile application.	The Dermloop Learn app tracks how much time each user spends quizzing and reading.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

AISC Research Fascility; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Danmark, Denmark