Acceptance of Telemedicine in Dermatology Patients, Physicians and Medical Staff

University Hospital Basel

Status

Completed

Conditions

Dermatologic Disease

Treatments

Other: data collection (21-items-patient descriptive survey)

Other: data collection (23-items-physician descriptive survey)

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04495036

Req-2019-00523 sp20Maul2;

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment

683 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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