TASK Chatbot (version 2.0 23.11.2019)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Co-designing a Chatbot for Treating Anxiety after Stroke (TASK-Chatbot)

• IRAS ID

  264524

• Contact name

  Ho-Yan Yvonne Chun

• Contact email

  hchun@exseed.ed.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Edinburgh

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 6 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Why?

  Anxiety affects a quarter of people with stroke and mini-stroke. Psychological support is inadequate due to limited resources. Guided self-help talking therapy, delivered remotely, may be helpful for people with anxiety after stroke. We recently designed and tested a guided self-help therapy called TASK (Treating Anxiety after StroKe).

  To improve the design of TASK we aim to develop a chatbot to help anxious patients practice their self-help therapy exercises at home. A chatbot is an interactive computer programme that accepts spoken or typed input and reacts with appropriate spoken or typed output. A chatbot could help anxious patients practice their self-help therapy exercises at home.

  What?

  To ensure acceptability and effectiveness, we will consult people who have experienced a stroke or a mini-stroke on the design of the TASK chatbot during face to face interviews.

  Who?

  1) Anyone with a previous diagnosis of a stroke or mini-stroke in NHS Lothian
  2) Able to communicate in English and provide informed consent
  3) Able to travel to the University of Edinburgh for one face-to-face interview
  4) Have access to the Internet

  How?

  The face-to-face interview with our student researcher will help us learn about:
  i) The ways people use technology after a stroke or mini-stroke
  ii) The chatbot features that would be helpful for people after a stroke or mini-stroke

  After the interview, our researchers will design a prototype TASK chatbot for further testing in a follow up study.

  Where?

  The interview will take place at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh.

• REC name

  London - Chelsea Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/HRA/1316

• Date of REC Opinion

  20 Jul 2020

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion