Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: Survey Study
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Surveys.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Digital Health. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Belgium
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: a Prospective Single-center Quantitative Survey Study
Overview
This study aims to explore patients' use of digital services for self-management of their health following major surgery at Jessa Hospital. Besides this, the study evaluates patients' ability to process and critically assess health information during recovery, their understanding of health concepts and risk factors, and their perception of data security and control over personal health information. Additionally, the study aims to examine patients' motivation to use digital services, their access to and trust in reliable digital health resources, and how well these services meet their individual needs. Furthermore, the study assesses the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health tools in a post-operative setting, as well as evaluating the digital readiness of patients after surgery.
Detailed description
Digital health technologies are transforming healthcare, offering new ways to improve patient outcomes and enhance efficiency. Remote clinical monitoring (RCM), which uses digital technologies such as wearable devices and mobile apps to monitor patients outside of the traditional healthcare settings such as a hospital, holds significant potential for supporting post-operative care, especially in the context of faster hospital discharge after major surgery. Major surgery involves procedures on organ systems, such as cancer resections, organ transplants, and lung or abdominal surgeries. However, despite their promise, the successful implementation of these technologies into clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of the perspectives of the end user, being the patient. Patients' comfort, engagement, and perceptions about digital health solutions, such as self-management tools and remote monitoring pathways, are essential to ensuring these technologies are both effective and widely accepted.
Interventions
- Procedure Surveys
Several questionnaires will be conducted once in-person to each patient after a follow-up consultation in the hospital after their major surgery
Primary outcome measures
- Patients' understanding of comfort and engagement with using digital services for self- management of their disease [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
Secondary outcome measures (9)
- Ability of patients to use technology to process and critically evaluate health information [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Patients' understanding of health concepts, their health status, and risk factors [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Patients' perception of data security and control over personal health data [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Patients' motivation to use digital services for managing postoperative health [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Patients' access to and trust in reliable digital health services [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- The extent to which digital health services meet patients' individual needs and preferences [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health by means of implementation outcome measures AIM, IAM, and FIM [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- Digital readiness [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
- External validation of the digital health readiness questionnaire [Time frame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Surgical patients
- >18 years old, Undergone major surgery at Jessa Hospital Hasselt
Exclusion criteria
- Unable to provide informed consent or request to not participate in the study
- Cognitively incapable of understanding the study
- No understanding of the Dutch language
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Belgium · 1 center
- Jessa Hospital — Hasselt
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07010081 · 2025/047