Feasibility of Monitoring Cancer Patients With a Smart T-shirt: Protocol for the OncoSmartShirt Study

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Device: Wearable sensor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05235594

OncoSmartShirt

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will assess the feasibility of using the ChronolifeTM smart t-shirt for home monitoring of vital parameters in cancer patients during their treatment course. This study will bring new insights to how wearables and biometric data can be used as a part of symptom recognition in cancer patients during treatment course in the quest of increasing patients' quality of life.

Full description

Collecting biometric sensor data by wearables is an example of real-time patient-generated health data that can provide vital and detailed objective information about patients. This may have the potential to improve quality of oncological treatment and increase patients' quality of life.

Studies have shown that there may be a dissimilar perception on symptoms and side effects between patients and health care professionals. Wearables may help identifying symptoms earlier.

A new design of a wearable is a smart t-shirt. A smart t-shirt has sensors embedded in the fabric which generate measurement flows. This new tool provide more precise information without recall and reporting bias which may have the potential to lead to a better and more accurate cancer treatment.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Danish cancer patients ≥18 years in antineoplastic treatment at Department of Oncology Rigshospitalet Denmark
• Both patients in curative and palliative care will be eligible
• 10 cancer patients under 39 years
• 10 cancer patients over 65 years
• Able to read and speak Danish

Exclusion criteria

• Serious cognitive deficits

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental: Smart shirt

Experimental group

Description:

The research intervention is, for all twenty patients, to wear a smart t-shirt connected to a smart phone throughout the day (preferably 8 hours pr day) for 2 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Wearable sensor