NCT05465356

Patient Engagement With Digital Health Tools in Rheumatology

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the patient engagement with digital tools for diagnosis and monitoring of disease in rheumatology services

Detailed description

The investigators plan to undertake a mixed methods study to investigate a digital algorithm to potentially inform triage of new patient referral to rheumatology services, as well as to inform follow up review schedules. Current practice at out hospital is to ask all newly referred patients to complete a pre-appointment digital questionnaire prior to their clinic visit. Patients who need follow up are then routinely invited to continue to return interval questionnaires related to their symptoms between clinic visits. The investigators believe that the questionnaire responses could enable appropriate (and safe) allocation to a particular clinic (e.g. urgent early arthritis clinic or general rheumatology clinic for a new referral), or define an appropriate clinic follow up interval for a repeat visit for patients with a rheumatic disease. Our study aims to evaluate these questionnaires using data collected from routine clinical practice, as well a series of semi-structured interviews with service users.

Conditions

• Rheumatic Disease
• PROM

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	Questionnaires completed as part of routine care - this is an observational study
OTHER	Semi-structured interview	Semi-structured interview to review factors involved in patients engaging or not-engaging with the digital tools

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2024-10-01
• Completion: 2025-07-01
• First posted: 2022-07-19
• Last updated: 2022-07-19