Care4today System In-home Usability Test

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Care4today System In-home Usability Test

• IRAS ID

  227711

• Contact name

  Talha Munir

• Contact email

  tmunir@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  Janssen-Cilag Ltd

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 1 months, 14 days

• Research summary

  The study will determine the level of patient and healthcare professional (pharmacist, nurse and doctor) satisfaction and adoption of the Care4today system as well as assessing usability. The Care4today system is a smartphone application that works with a patient’s tablet blister pack to help increase patient adherence. The smartphone application works by using a smartphone to scan a patient’s blister pack each time they take their medication. The scanned information is then logged in the smart phone and can be used to review the patient’s progress with their medication or to share information with their friends, family or healthcare professional. The application also allows patients to set reminders to help them remember to take their medication.
  
  Study participants will be recruited via their nurse, doctor or pharmacist working in one of three NHS hospitals. All the study participants will be CLL (Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia) patients, over 65 years of age and taking at least two tablets of medication each day. The healthcare professionals (having undergone a ‘train the trainer’ course) will train the patients on the use of the smartphone app in order to mimic a real use situation. Patients will be given placebo blister packs and a smartphone pre-loaded with the app and asked to use the combined blister pack and smartphone app for a period of at least 14 days. During this time they will be expected to complete various tasks such as responding to reminders from the system and completing an adherence log. Patients will not be given any additional medication as part of this study and the app will not track their existing medication. Data from the study will be collected in the form of healthcare professional and patient diaries, post week one and week two patient interviews and healthcare professional or patient focus groups.

• REC name

  London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  17/LO/1286

• Date of REC Opinion

  26 Jul 2017

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion