NCT04150120Completed
eHealth as an Aid for Facilitating and Supporting Self-management in Families With Long-term Childhood Illness
eHealth as an Aid for Facilitating and Supporting Self-management in Families With Long-term Childhood Illness - Development, Evaluation and Implementation in Clinical Practice
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall aim is twofold: 1) to stretch the borderline regarding the present knowledge of clinical and economic cost-effectiveness of eHealth as an aid for facilitating and supporting self-management in families with long-term childhood illness, and 2) to develop a sustainable multidisciplinary research environment for advancing, evaluating, and implementing models of eHealth to promote self-management for children and their families. A number of clinical studies are planned for, covering different parts of paediatric healthcare. The concept of child-centred care is essential. Experienced researchers from care science, medicine, economics, technology, and social science will collaborate around common issues. Expertise on IT technology will analyse the preconditions for using IT; economic evaluations will be performed alongside clinical studies; and cultural and implementation perspectives will be used to analyse the challenges that arise from the changes in relations among children, family and professionals, which may occur as a result of the introduction of eHealth. Child health is not only important in itself. Investments in child health may also generate significant future gains, such as improved educational and labour market performance. Six complex, long-term and costly challenges in paediatric healthcare are planned for, involving eHealth technology such as interactive video consultation, pictures, on-line monitoring, and textual communication. The research follows an international framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions in healthcare. End-users (families) and relevant care providers (professionals in health and social care) will participate throughout the research process. The overall aim is certainly to analyse eHealth as an aid for facilitating and supporting self-management. However, the plan also includes the research issue whether eHealth at the same time improves the allocation of scarce health care- and societal resources.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 720 (actual)
- First submitted
- 21 Oct 2019
- Start date
- 15 Oct 2019
- Primary completion date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Lund University
- Diseases
- HIV, Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT04150120
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 720
- From 15 Oct 2019 to the primary completion date, 30 Oct 2025
- 7 sites in 3 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Age
- The legal guardian refuses to sign informed consent.
- For the Ethiopian arm:
- Patients outside of the specified age and adolescents, who are in patient-department, and adolescents who cannot read.
Other
- Legal guardians of children fulfilling the inclusion criteria but where the child has complications or comorbidity which may affect the results of the study (as defined by the responsible medical physician)
Who the study is looking for
- Legal guardians of children below four years of age who are hospitalised for:
- reconstructive surgery for congenital malformations
- cardiac surgery for CHD
- premature birth
- paediatric cancer and in treatment
- are in need of nutritional supplements
- are about to be discharged from the hospital
- are able to communicate in the local language (Swedish in Sweden and Danish in Denmark)
- signs informed consent
- For the Ethiopian arm:
- Adolescents, aged 15-19, living with HIV and currently enrolled in ART care for two years or less, being able to read the local language and willing to participate in the study will be eligible for the study.
- Legal guardians of children below four years of age who fulfil the intervention group inclusion criteria but:
- do not want to use the e-device
- not recruited for the intervention group
- are recruited after the stipulated numbers for the intervention group are met
- For the Ethiopian arm:
- Adolescents, aged 15-19, living with HIV and currently enrolled in ART care for two years or less, being able to read the local language and willing to participate in the study will be eligible for the study.
Age in the registry: 3 days to 19 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (7)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigshospitalet Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Copenhagen | Denmark | Unknown status |
| Hillerød Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hillerød | Denmark | Unknown status |
| Arba Minch University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Arba Minch | Ethiopia | Unknown status |
| Paediatric Oncology Department, Skåne University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Neonatal Department, Skåne University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Paediatric Cardiology Department, Skåne University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Paediatric Surgery Department, Skåne University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Unknown status |
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