Topic: Dementias and neurodegeneration
Conditions
Interventions
This is a randomised controlled pilot study that will involve 40 patients who are cared for by the Sheffield Motor Neurone Disease care centre and their main informal carer. Half of the participants w
Sponsors
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients aged 18 years or over with ElEscorial clinically definite or clinically probable categories of MND who have attended the MND clinic at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield 2. Live within 120 minute drive from Sheffield
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The main circumstances where patients or carers will be excluded are those in which individuals would be unable to use the telehealth system or give informed consent. 1. Patients attend another MND care centre in the UK. 2. Significant impairment in decision making capacity preventing informed consent by the subject due to a major mental disorder including frontotemporal dementia. 3. Patient unable to use the system due to physical, intellectual or language difficulties and unwilling to permit carer to operate it on their behalf 4. The patient has no eligible informal carer willing to participate in the trial 5. No available mobile or landline telephone or 3G mobile phone reception at the patient?s home (this is required to use the TiM system) 6. Any other major impairment that may affect their ability to participate in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feasibility and acceptability; Timepoint(s): End of the trial | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Not provided at time of registration | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed