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Research type
Research Study
Full title
Measuring the Recovery of Barts Health Patients with Electronic Follow-up: A qualitative study
IRAS ID
318066
Contact name
Zudin Puthucheary
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Queen Mary University of London
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 12 months, 0 days
Research summary
More and more people are surviving emergency, life-threatening illnesses. However, survival often comes at a cost to patients’ wellbeing. Many suffer from being so ill in ways not necessarily related to their original illness. Patients struggle with their normal activities of daily living or to do the job they did before. They struggle to live independently, to enjoy a normal diet, or to be pain-free. This leads to a decrease in their quality of life, placing a burden on families. We don't have a good method of highlighting and representing the issues faced by these patients. We have recently implemented a service innovation project, using an an app-based questionnaire in two groups (patients that survive emergency surgery, and those who survive critical illness) to highlight these problems early, so that individuals are offered the right help and services to return to living their lives as fully as possible. Patients will be asked to fill in an The electronic (on-line) questionnaire while in hospital, and at 1 and 6 months afterwards.
Along side this we intend to perform a qualitative assessment of the value and acceptability of this project. We will interview patients approximately 2-3 weeks after the questionnaire completion at 1 and 6
months to determine how easy it was to use, how acceptable the process was and how well it described and highlighted their problems. Clinicians will also be interviewed after patients are seen in the follow-up clinics, to ascertain the perceived usefulness of the system. If this system works, it would become part of routine care, extended to patients admitted as emergencies to hospital, and used to develop a national program for all UK hospital patients.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/YH/0146
Date of REC Opinion
28 Jul 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion