Acceptance of Telemedicine in Dermatology Patients, Physicians and Medical Staff

Completed

• Conditions: Dermatologic Disease
• Interventions: Other: data collection (23-items-physician descriptive survey); Other: data collection (21-items-patient descriptive survey)

• Registration Number: NCT04495036
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Brief Summary

This study is to investigate the current use and intention to use of teledermatology in Swiss dermatology patients, dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff.

Detailed Description

Telemedicine, the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance, has become an increasing role in basic medical care internationally. Telemedicine is particularly suitable for skin diseases. In order to improve the use of evidence-based telemedicine, the Swiss patients' preferences regarding teledermatology versus face-to-face consultations and the patients' and physicians' determinants of acceptance for teledermatology are investigated in this study. Dermatology patients are asked to complete a newly-created 21-items-survey; Swiss dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff on telemedicine will complete a similar newly-created, 23-items-questionnaire. A descriptive statistical analysis (e.g. gender, age, place of residence (city or country), waiting time) will be performed.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-01-31
• Study Completion: 2020-01-31
• Study First Submitted: 2020-07-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-07-28
• Study First Posted: 2020-07-31
• Status Verified: 2020-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 2020-08-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 683

Inclusion Criteria

• patients treated in the Department of Dermatology of the Cantonal Hospital Aarau and the University Hospitals Basel and Zürich
• dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff of the Department of Dermatology of the Cantonal Hospital Aarau and the University Hospitals Basel and Zürich

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
physicians and medical staff	data collection (23-items-physician descriptive survey)	-
dermatology patients	data collection (21-items-patient descriptive survey)	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
descriptive analysis: deviation in influencing factors for the acceptance of teledermatology	at baseline	Assessment of the deviation in influencing factors for the acceptance of teledermatology (subjective disease perception versus objective assessment by physicians)
descriptive analysis of the impact of medical education for the acceptance of telemedicine among dermatologists vs. other physicians vs. medical staff vs. patients	at baseline	Comparison of the impact of medical education for the acceptance of telemedicine among dermatologists vs. other physicians vs. medical staff vs. patients

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Kantonsspital Aarau; 🇨🇭 Aarau, Switzerland

Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel; 🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland

University Hospital Zürich; 🇨🇭 Zürich, Switzerland