Treatment Adherence and Compliance
Conditions
Keywords
Treatment adherence, New technologies, Back pain
Brief summary
This project continuing to study on the effectiveness of a Chatbot in promoting adherence to home physiotherapy treatment for patients, in this case, with cervical musculoskeletal injuries and pain. The use of digital technologies and media is an important option to complement in-person treatment and promote adherence to treatment at home. The research aims to verify whether the use of a Chatbot as a means of communication can produce improvements in patient adherence and clinical results.
Interventions
OTHEREducation
One-week, three sessions in alternate days, outpatient supervised education on how to perform the exercises at home
DEVICEChatbot
12 week- intervention consisting of messages with an explanatory video of each exercise indicating how to do it and how many repetitions to perform
12 week- intervention. Printed sheets indicating how to exercises and how many repetitions to perform
Sponsors
University of Valencia
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE (Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The interventor providing the education sessions will be blinded to group allocation The outcome assessor will be blinded to the intervention
Intervention model description
Two arms study, experimental vs control
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Over 18 years. * Diagnosis of cervical pain. * Indication of treatment through home exercises. * With a personal smartphone * Verbally confirms to have installed an instant messaging service or app, and accesses it at least 3 times a week
Exclusion criteria
* No to sign the informed consent. * Not able to understand, read and write in the Spanish language
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adherence | 0 weeks, 12 weeks | Record of the number of sessions performed. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visual analogue scale (VAS) | 0 weeks, 12 weeks | Numerical scale from 0 to 10, where 0 indicates no pain and 10 is the maximum pain experienced. |
| Disability | 0 weeks, 12 weeks | The Neck Disability Index (NDI) consists of ten questions in the following domains: Pain Intensity, Personal Care, Lifting, Reading, Headaches, Concentration, Work, Driving, Sleeping, and Recreation. Scoring: Each question contains six answer choices, scored from 0 (no disability) to 5 (complete disability). |
| Satisfaction scale with the treatment received | 12 weeks | The CRES-4 satisfaction scale consists of four items designed to evaluate whether patients are satisfied with the therapy they have received and whether it has been perceived as effective. Its global score is intended to reflect treatment effectiveness as perceived by the patient. It is a good complementary tool to judge, in particular, satisfaction with the treatment received. Consists of four questions, and score with a score ranging from 0 to 18 points. The more points, the more satisfied you are with the treatment. |
| Sistem usability scale | 12 weeks | It consists of a 10 item questionnaire for measuring the usability of the experimental intervention tool with five response options for respondents, from Strongly agree to Strongly disagree |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed