RCAT (renal computerised adaptive test)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development of a Novel Item Bank and Multidimensional Computerised Adaptive Test to Measure Patient-Reported Outcomes and Improve Management of Kidney Diseases: RCAT
IRAS ID
279373
Contact name
Derek Kyte
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Background
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects 1 in 7 people in the UK. Those with advanced CKD may need demanding and costly treatments, such as dialysis, for the rest of their lives. These patients often experience a very poor quality of life and can also get worse very quickly. Unfortunately, this can happen between visits to their clinical team, meaning they need to go to hospital as an emergency and have more ill-health as a result.Patients and clinicians believe it would be helpful to ask patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to use a computer/smartphone to provide regular information about their quality of life and symptoms in between their hospital appointments. This information can be collected using questionnaires known as ‘electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures’ or ePROMs. The use of ePROMs could help clinicians to respond better to patient’s needs.
Aims of study
This project aims to develop a new ePROM questionnaire which asks targeted questions to patients based on their individual circumstances. This means that the questionnaires are quicker to complete and more tailored to the patient.What will we do
The study is split into three phases over three years:Phase 1: we will talk to patients with CKD and their health care team, as well as searching through scientific papers, to find out how CKD affects patients.
Phase 2: we will develop a questionnaire item bank which will allow us to collect information about patients’ quality of life and symptoms.
Phase 3: we will use the questionnaire to develop a CAT (Computer Adaptive Test). The CAT looks through the full questionnaire and chooses the questions that will be targeted to the patient completing the ePROM.
REC name
West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/WM/0182
Date of REC Opinion
10 Aug 2020
REC opinion
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