NCT04993599

Evaluation of Social Robot Usability for Pediatric Patients and Carers

Completed NA Last updated 27 April 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Social robot interaction in Pediatrics in 16 participants. Completed in 31 January 2022.

Timeline

2 September 2021

Primary endpoint
31 January 2022

31 January 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Samsung Medical Center
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	16
Start date	2 September 2021
Primary completion	31 January 2022
Estimated completion	31 January 2022
Sites	1 location across South Korea

Drugs / interventions tested

• Social robot interaction

Conditions studied

• Pediatrics — all drugs for Pediatrics →

Sponsor

Samsung Medical Center

Who can join

5 and older, any sex, with Pediatrics. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study is conducted for a mixed methods study. Subjects are 20 child patients and 20 their carers. First, Participants use and interact with a social robot. The robot is controlled by researcher with the wizard of oz. method. The interaction is video-recorded for the later analysis of the child's engagement through amount of his vocalization and sentences. After using social robot, a survey and an in-depth interview will be done.

This study investigates the usability, satisfaction, emotion, and other dimensions of social robots of pediatric patients and carers and evaluate the degree of interaction with them with the recording data, survey and in-depth interview. This study is a basis for using social robots to pediatric patients in the hospital environments.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.