Development and Needs Assessment and Efficiency of Smart Communication System for Patients With ALS (Part 1)

Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03806647

2018-09-001A-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research is aimed to explore the needs of clinical patients and their caregiver,so as to provide suggestions to the designer of the communication system.

Full description

To promote and develop a smart communication system is helpful to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),especially for stage 3 and stage 4 (late stage). Through the needs assessment, the research is aimed to explore the needs of clinical patients and their caregiver,so as to provide suggestions to the designer of the communication system.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of ALS
• Taiwanese and used traditional Chinese(Mandarin).
• If they were older than age 20 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Frontotemporal dementia, severe depression, or schizophrenia.
• If they cannot complete the questionnaire with researchers or family members help.