Spinal Cord Injuries
Conditions
Keywords
Pressure ulcer, validity of measures
Brief summary
Current methods to assess superficial size and area of pressure ulcers are either time-consuming (using Transparency Tracings techniques), costly (computers, softwares), or necessitating to touch the patient's skin (using commun rulers). A free smartphone application (for IOS or Android) has recently been developed to measures skin lesions. It is called imitoMeasure. It does not require any contact with the patient. A photograph is taken with the smartphone, the limits of the lesion is then drawn with the health carers' finger on the phone's screen. The application computes the length, width and surface of the ulcer. This technique has not yet been validated, although it has been used to measure various types of skin lesions. The objective of this study is to validate this measurement technique on a sample of pressure ulcer in a population of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Reliability is assessed by comparison to the currently most frequently used techniques (Transparency Tracings and ruler-based), and fiability is assessed by intra-rater and inter-rater correlations. imitoMeasure is a new smartphone application to measure wounds size. The present study assesses validity of the measure against common measures (ruler-based and transparency tracings), and the inter- and intra-rater reliability.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
University Hospital, Montpellier
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* complete or incomplete spinal cord injury, all delays or aetiologies * presence of one or more pressure ulcers stade II to IV * adults
Exclusion criteria
* refusal to participate * local infection
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Correlation of imitoMeasure of ulcers' surface to transparency tracing surface measure | immediately upon first assessment of patients | Correlation of imitoMeasure of ulcers' surface to transparency tracing surface measure |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Correlation of imitoMeasure of ulcers' surface to ruler-based surface measure | immediately upon first assessment of patients | Correlation of imitoMeasure of ulcers' surface to ruler-based surface measure |
| inter-rater and intra-rater validity of imitoMeasure | immediately upon first assessment of patients | inter-rater and intra-rater validity of imitoMeasure |
| Correlation of imitoMeasure of length and width of ulcers to ruler-based measures | immediately upon first assessment of patients | Correlation of imitoMeasure of length and width of ulcers to ruler-based measures |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed