PERTH 2: Co-design of a Home-based Monitoring Service for Cancer Patients to Optimize Delivery of Systemic Therapy.

Entia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Interviews

Device: Blood measurement and monitoring

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT03923296

IRAS: 234137

Details and patient eligibility

About

Iterative co-design study where patients receiving systemic cancer therapy, carers and healthcare professionals involved in delivering cancer therapy, work with Entia to design a home based blood monitoring service. The iterative process means that at each stage of the development process, Entia will be building on what is learnt in the previous stage.

Full description

The study will use feedback provided by patients, carers and heatlhcare professionals to inform the changes that are necessary to develop a successful, user friendly home-based blood monitoring service for cancer patients.

Enrollment

62 patients

Sex

All

Ages

16+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adequate english to participate in focus groups and workshops without an interpreter
Patients of the study site who are currently undergoing systemic therapy or have previously undergone systemic therapy within the past 12 months
Patients willing to participate in at least 60-minute and ideally 90-minute workshops at the designated study location, time and date.
Patients capable of providing informed consent before attending the first workshop

For carers

Should be the primary carer nominated by a patient who fulfils the inclusion criteria, this includes parents of affected children
Should be willing to participate in at least a 60-minute and ideally 90-minute workshops at the designated study location, time and date.
Carers can only participate in the study with the cancer patient he/she is caring for. The patient has to also involved in the study
Carers need to be capable of providing informed consent before attending the first workshop

For healthcare professionals

All clinicians need to be current employees of the study site
Doctors need to be employed at Specialist Registrar, Fellow or Consultant Level
Nurses of all grades are invited to participate but ideally need to have had some involvement in the outpatient care of oncology patients

All participants:-

Should be willing to have the session's recorded audio, transcripts and analysed data from the focus groups/workshops shared with Entia Ltd.
should be willing to attend multiple 60 to 90 minute workshops.
should be willing for photos and video footage to be taken during the interview.
Participants attending workshops later in the development process must be comfortable consenting to finger prick testing/ assessing the ease of use of the test disposable

Exclusion criteria

For patients

Does not have adequate English to participate in focus group interview without an interpreter
Patients of the study site who are not currently undergoing systemic therapy or have previously undergone systemic therapy within the past 12 months
Patients not willing to participate in at least 60-minute and ideally 90-minute focus group discussion at the designated study location, time and date.
Participant not capable of providing consent or have a suitable, legally acceptable representative present to provide consent before the focus group interview.

For carers

Is not the nominated primary carer of a cancer patient who fulfils the inclusion criteria, this includes parents of affected children
Not paired with a patient that is involved in the study
Carers not willing to participate in at least a 60-minute and ideally 90-minute focus group discussion at the designated study location, time and date.

For healthcare professionals

● Doctors who are not employed at Specialist Registrar, Fellow or Consultant Level