Patient Acceptance And Satisfaction of Teledermoscopy In General Practice In a Belgian Rural Area

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Patient Satisfaction; Skin Cancer

Treatments: Other: taking macroscopic and dermoscopic pictures of suspicious skin lesions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04534868

CE 2020/06AOU/397

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim objective of this work is to assess the characteristics of patients for whom teledermoscopy could be suitable for the detection of potential skin cancers, within a population of rural general medicine in the South of Hainaut, by means of a mixed quantitative and qualitative study corresponding respectively:

• To identify patients' knowledge of skin cancers, their skin monitoring habits, and their acceptability of new telemedicine tools such as teledermoscopy ("Part 1").
• To evaluate the satisfaction and expectations of those who benefit from teledermoscopy ("Part 2").

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults ( > 18y)
• French Speaking Patient

Exclusion criteria

• Illiterate Patients
• Demented Patients
• Non-French speaking patients
• Minors.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Patient Acceptance and satisfaction for teledermoscopy

Other group

Description:

The aim of the first part of the study is to evaluate patients' skin monitoring habits, their knowledge of skin cancer, and their preconceptions about new telemedicine tools such as teledermoscopy. This is a written quantitative questionnaire with answers to tick. An explanatory folder will be given to patients and they will be asked to read it beforehand in order to allow a good understanding of the terms used and the goal of the project. This part will include 70 to 100 patients. The second part of the study is a qualitative study and the aim of it is to evaluate the satisfaction, acceptance and future expectations of those who have benefited from teledermoscopy. Individual and anonymous interviews, lasting 15 to 20 minutes, intended for patients who have benefit of teledermoscopy at the office. An explanatory folder will also be given to the patients concerned in order to explain to them the procedure of the interview. This part will include 8 to 10 patients.

Treatment:

Other: taking macroscopic and dermoscopic pictures of suspicious skin lesions