NCT05344950

Connecting Audio and Radio Sensing Systems to Improve Care at Home

Development and Pilot Testing of AURA

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to assess the usability of the innovative Audio + Radio (AURA) system in enhancing personalized supportive care for cancer patients and caregivers during the post-ostomy care transition by collecting information on patient's daily activities and answers to survey questionnaire, and enabling access to this information through a voice assistant device.

Detailed description

The investigators will assign up to 30 cancer patients with newly created ostomies for cancer treatment with curative intent and their primary caregivers to the AURA or usual care groups (up to 30 patient-caregiver dyads, a total of 60 individuals). AURA is defined as a system that connects audio-based voice assistant devices with radiofrequency (RF) sensing technology to gather relevant patient information automatically, interactively, and with context-awareness and to store a patient's health records that otherwise had to be measured and entered manually into an electronic system. Additionally, the system enables user's access to this information through a voice assistant device. The users of this system will be the entire care team, consisting of the patient and their family members as well as the caregivers and healthcare providers at remote sites. If results indicate that the pilot trial is feasible, the investigators will design and conduct a definitive trial to examine the efficacy of AURA, a potentially scalable intervention that can be disseminated through oncology clinics nationwide to enhance post-treatment care for cancer patients with ostomies who transition from hospital professional care to self-management at home and their caregivers.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Cervical Cancer
• Uterine Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Audio + Radio (AURA)	Participants will receive personalized self-care information based on their symptoms and signs of complications (e.g., fatigue) from interacting with our voice assistant device, connected to a system that integrating the patient-reported outcome and objective data from passive RF sensing to provide continuous monitoring of patients' symptoms and complications after they are discharged home.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-21
• Primary completion: 2024-07-31
• Completion: 2024-07-31
• First posted: 2022-04-25
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States