Usability Comparison of a mHealth Application for Pre-anesthesia Evaluation Before and After Re-design of User Interface

NCT04070261 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 201904098RINC
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Pre-anesthesia assessment is an important part of anesthesiologists daily routine. A thorough assessment leads to an impeccable anesthesia plan. In the past, the department of anesthesiologist in NTUH (National Taiwan University Hospital) utilizes paper assessment form. As government policy leans towards digitization, the department of anesthesiologist in NTUH collaborates with the information technology office to develop an electronic pre-anesthesia assessment system called EVAN, which is an iOS based application (App). EVAN includes an anesthesia patient list, patient EMR (electronic medical record) and pre-anesthesia assessment form. EVAN was online since March, 2018. This is an observational research to investigate the user experience and improve the user interface of EVAN. This research subjects include anesthesiologists from NTUH. This research has three parts: user tasks, questionnaires, and a semi-structured interview. First, the research assistant will record how the user use the App to complete the tasks, which includes video recording and App monitoring. After the tasks is completed, the subject will write a questionnaire. Then the principal investigator will give an interview for feedbacks from the users.

Conditions

Usability; Anesthesia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• task complete time

  the time duration the user needs to complete the user tasks

  the duration the user needs to complete the tasks, usually within 10 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• questionnaire grading

  after the user questionnaire completion, usually within 1 minutes

Study Arms (1)

User

Other: iOS application usability test

Interventions

iOS application usability test OTHER

user tasks, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews

User

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Enroll the anesthesiologists and anesthesiology residents in NTUH

You may qualify if:

• anesthesiologists in NTUH

You may not qualify if:

• none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Taiwan University Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, 100, Taiwan

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 15, 2019
• First Posted: August 28, 2019
• Study Start: October 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: March 14, 2022
• Study Completion: July 31, 2022
• Last Updated: March 28, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)