Mobile APP Utilization for Enhanced Post-Operative Nutritional Recovery
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 23
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Acceptability of Smart Phone Application
研究概览
简要总结
This study is to assess the usability and acceptability of a digital food consumption diary as part of the perioperative management of gastrointestinal oncology patients and to evaluate the impact of a digital food diary on adherence to dietician-recommended plan and on quality recovery, using a commercially available smart phone application.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers confirmed by tissue diagnosis and/or clinical presentation as judged by the treating physician
- •Candidate for curative-intent surgery
- •Participants will be eligible for participation regardless of degree of malnutrition (as determined at pre-operative dietary consultation)
- •Own a smartphone with iOS or Android operating systems with WiFi or 3G/4G connection
- •Willingness to download the Livestrong.com MyPlate Calorie Tracker onto a personal smart phone with assumption and responsibility for individual data usage, and creation of login for website data extraction
- •Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
- •Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
- •Sufficient English language proficiency to execute study tasks
排除标准
- •Participants with tube feeds and/or need for parenteral/enteral nutrition
- •Participants not willing to download or utilize the commercially available weight monitoring application
结局指标
主要结局
Acceptability of Smart Phone Application
时间窗: Up to 3 months
Patient's acceptability of the mobile application to assist with postoperative nutrition goals will be captured by the Exit Questionnaire (6 questions of 12). The Exit Questionnaire includes a mixture of 5-point Likert-scale, yes or no, and open-ended items to assess acceptability. Questions on the 5 point scale use 1 as an indication of acceptability issues of the application and 5 would be acceptability.
Usability of Smart Phone Application
时间窗: Up to 3 months
Usability of smart phone application will be captured by (1) number of days that entries have been made by the study participants and recorded as a percentage of the total number of days after discharge from the hospital (obtained from mobile application (2) number of meals recorded in the application per day (obtained from mobile application) and (3) Exit Questionnaire (6 questions of 12). The Exit Questionnaire includes a mixture of 5-point Likert-scale, yes or no, and open-ended items to assess usability. Questions on the 5 point scale use 1 as an indication of difficulty in using application and 5 would be ease of use.
次要结局
- Adherence to Recommended Nutritional Plan(Up to 3 months)