Otitis Media
Conditions
Keywords
otoscopy, otitis media, cellphone, family
Brief summary
This is a one-center clinical study carried out in Turku, Finland. The study patients will be randomly allocated to one of the two parallel study groups (teaching group and control group). The hypothesis is that the diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines is better when parents have been taught to conduct middle ear examination with a cellphone otoscope (CellScopeOTO) as compared to no teaching. Furthermore, this study aims at evaluating the diagnostic feasibility of cellphone otoscopy.
Interventions
OTHERTeaching
DEVICE(CellScopeOTO)
Sponsors
Turku University Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Months to 35 Months
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Age 6 - 35 mo * Parents have iPhone 5, 5s or 6 * Child is in daycare * Child has had at least one acute otitis media within 90 days preceding the enrollment * Family agrees to give a mortgage of 40 euros from the CellScopeOTO
Exclusion criteria
* Tympastonomy tube present in tympanic membrane * Chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane * Condition of head/neck anomaly to affect middle ear or ear canal anatomy * One child from the family already participating
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines | first study week | diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines obtained by parents with cellphone otoscope |
Countries
Finland
Outcome results
None listed