NCT04495036

Acceptance of Telemedicine in Dermatology Patients, Physicians and Medical Staff

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 683 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is to investigate the current use and intention to use of teledermatology in Swiss dermatology patients, dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff.

Detailed description

Telemedicine, the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance, has become an increasing role in basic medical care internationally. Telemedicine is particularly suitable for skin diseases. In order to improve the use of evidence-based telemedicine, the Swiss patients' preferences regarding teledermatology versus face-to-face consultations and the patients' and physicians' determinants of acceptance for teledermatology are investigated in this study. Dermatology patients are asked to complete a newly-created 21-items-survey; Swiss dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff on telemedicine will complete a similar newly-created, 23-items-questionnaire. A descriptive statistical analysis (e.g. gender, age, place of residence (city or country), waiting time) will be performed.

Conditions

• Dermatologic Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	data collection (21-items-patient descriptive survey)	Dermatology patients are asked to complete a 21-items-survey while waiting for the doctor's consultation. Following variables will be addressed: * Demographic data of telemedicine users and non-users * Subjective disease perception of the dermatology patients * Use of internet, telemedicine and telemedicine insurance model * Patients´ willingness for additional features of telemedicine * Advantages and disadvantages telemedicine and face-to-face consultation * Suitable fields of dermatology for telemedicine from the patient's perspective * Recommended structure of telemedical services by users and non-users
OTHER	data collection (23-items-physician descriptive survey)	To obtain the view of Swiss dermatologists, other physicians and medical staff on telemedicine a 23-items-survey will be completed. Following variables will be addressed: * Objective disease perception of the treating dermatologist (regarding the urgency of the patient's medical examination, the functional impairment and cosmetic burden due to patient's disease, the impairment of life quality due to patient's disease and the estimation of the course of the patient's disease) * Suitable fields of dermatology for telemedicine from the physician's and medical staff's perspective

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-31
• Completion: 2020-01-31
• First posted: 2020-07-31
• Last updated: 2020-08-04

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Switzerland