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Social Robot Support for Healthcare Professionals

R

Radboud University Medical Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Frailty at Older Adults

Treatments

Other: Questionnaire

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03857789
2018-5019

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of integrated care pathway steps supported by social robots. Half of the participants will receive regular care, while for the other half a social robot dialogue will be included as part of the pathway step.

Full description

There is a worldwide increasing shortage of adequately trained healthcare personnel, leading to the challenge for society to prevent a future "lack of care". At the same time the number of people requiring healthcare is expanding rapidly, amongst others due to the growing percentage of older adults in the population. New means of supporting the available healthcare professionals are therefore urgently required.

Modern healthcare is often implemented through "integrated care pathways". Certain steps in these pathways involve dialogues with patients. Speaking social robots are increasingly being advertised as supportive for healthcare professionals and may handle certain structured dialogue types, such as questionnaires. Based on previous positive preclinical experiences with social robots interviewing community-dwelling older subjects, the researchers want to investigate the implementation of a social robot in an integrated care pathway in the outpatient clinic.

Enrollment

80 patients

Sex

All

Ages

70+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Suspicion of need for quality of life support

Exclusion criteria

  • Psychiatric Disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose

Screening

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

80 participants in 2 patient groups

Regular care
Other group
Description:
Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The HCP will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.
Treatment:
Other: Questionnaire
New care
Experimental group
Description:
Participant will be received by Healthcare professional (HCP). The social robot will administer a questionnaire. The HCP will discuss the results.
Treatment:
Other: Questionnaire

Trial contacts and locations

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