Clinical trial NCT07010081: Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: Survey Study
Official title: Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: a Prospective Single-center Quantitative Survey Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Digital Health
Keywords: Remote monitoring
Major surgery
Lead sponsor: Jessa Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-06-08
Enrollment: 220
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: 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.

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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patients' understanding of comfort and engagement with using digital services for self- management of their disease
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Ability of patients to use technology to process and critically evaluate health information
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Patients' understanding of health concepts, their health status, and risk factors
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Patients' perception of data security and control over personal health data
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Patients' motivation to use digital services for managing postoperative health
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Patients' access to and trust in reliable digital health services
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: The extent to which digital health services meet patients' individual needs and preferences
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health by means of implementation outcome measures AIM, IAM, and FIM
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: Digital readiness
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
measure: External validation of the digital health readiness questionnaire
timeFrame: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery
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