Leveraging Telehealth to Overcome Research Implementation and Data Collection Challenges in the Era of COVID-19

利用远程医疗克服 COVID-19 时代的研究实施和数据收集挑战

• 批准号: 10395789
• 负责人: Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi
• 金额: $ 3.78万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10395789
• 关键词: Administrative Supplement; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; Clinic; Clinical assessments; Data Collection; Effectiveness; Eligibility Determination; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Personnel; Health system; Human Resources; Informed Consent; Interview; Methods; Operations Research; Parents; Participant; Patient Education; Patients; Persons; Process; Protocols documentation; Questionnaires; Research; Safety; Sample Size; Sampling; Site; Social Distance; Telephone; Time; TimeLine; Travel; Tuberculosis; Uganda; Visit; base; cost; effectiveness evaluation; follow-up; implementation protocol; personal protective equipment; randomized trial; screening; smartphone Application; telehealth; treatment arm; treatment as usual

Project Summary In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been an unprecedented scale of disruption in implementation of health research around the world. Health systems, health providers and patients alike have been negatively impacted by the lockdowns, restrictions to travel, the need for social distancing, the lack of personal protective equipment among others. Compliance to new requirements has resulted in protocol adjustments and unexpected expenses in the field research operations. The administrative supplemental funding request is motivated by our team’s commitment to complete data collection to achieve a sample size with adequate power for statistical significance. The parent study protocol required close in-person interactions between research staff and patients during the baseline enrollment and follow up visits. The baseline enrollment visit involves face-to-face screening for study eligibility, obtaining written informed consent, clinical assessment, a baseline questionnaire and training patients in the VDOT intervention arm to use of a smartphone app as part of the trial. The follow-up involves 3 in-person visits follow up visits at the clinics. To-date, the parent study timeline expires April 30th 2021, yet only 30.6% of the study participants have completed the study. The goal of the supplement is to modify study implementation protocols to increase use of telehealth to enhance efficiency, safety and completion of follow up visits. The goal of this project will be accomplished through the following specific aims.

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