NCT05273580

Wearable and Patient-reported Outcome-based Continuous Assessment and Support Alerts in Palliative Care

Wearable and Patient-reported Outcome-based Continuous Assessment and Support Alerts in Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Carers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Royal North Shore Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Non-professional carers (typically family members) play a critical role in providing adequate home care. This research explores the use of wearable sensors (WS) and electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) surveys to monitor stress levels of advanced cancer patient/carer dyads. During wear times, WS-triggered ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) were conducted via short smartphone-based surveys. This pilot study investigates the feasibility of EMAs in community palliative care.

Detailed description

Non-professional carers (typically family members) play a critical role in providing adequate home care along with professional caregivers. However, the physical and emotional toll of caring for a family member can lead to distress and burn out of the carer. The latter often results in the need for temporary or permanent institutional care of the patient. This research explores the feasibility of wearable sensors (WS) and electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) surveys to monitor activity patterns and stress levels of advanced cancer patient/caregiver dyads in order to understand their needs better. Throughout the study, wearable sensors are used to passively record physiological data from patient/carer dyads. During wear times, WS recordings trigger ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) conducted via surveys. This pilot investigates the feasibility and acceptability of EMAs in community palliative care and the potential for incorporating EMA-based interventions into routine care. Future studies may explore the possibility of ecological momentary interventions (EMIs) to trigger just-in-time targeted interventions.

Conditions

• Palliative Care
• Wearable Electronic Devices
• Patient Reported Outcome Measures
• Cancer
• Caregiver
• Digital Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Garmin VivoSmart 4	Wearable sensor to record; sleep, stress, heart rate etc.
DEVICE	mema - ilumivu	mEMA is the a self-service platform running on both iOS and Android that is specifically designed for the administration of mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment or Experience Sampling research studies.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-15
• Primary completion: 2021-08-05
• Completion: 2021-11-12
• First posted: 2022-03-10
• Last updated: 2023-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia