Trial reportBMJ quality & safety2019
Robot for health data acquisition among older adults: a pilot randomised controlled cross-over trial.
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- Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Care: A Systematic Review.Journal of nursing management · 2023Pooled it
- Quality of Care Perceived by Older Patients and Caregivers in Integrated Care Pathways With Interviewing Assistance From a Social Robot: Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
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- Embodied Intelligence Applications in Health Care Populations: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Assistive Robotics for Healthy Aging: A Foundational Phenomenological Co-Design Exercise.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Challenges and implications of the use of artificial intelligence in health care, with an emphasis on nursing. Scoping review.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2025Article
- Adapting virtual agent interaction style with reinforcement learning to enhance affective engagement.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Usability and Feasibility Assessment of a Social Assistive Robot for the Older People: Results from the GUARDIAN Project.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Social Robot Interventions in Mental Health Care and Their Outcomes, Barriers, and Facilitators: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2022Article
- Implementing patient-reported outcomes in routine clinical care for diverse and underrepresented patients in the United States.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2022Review
- Social Robots for Supporting Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Real-world implementation of precision psychiatry: Transdiagnostic risk calculator for the automatic detection of individuals at-risk of psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2021Article
- Predicted Influences of Artificial Intelligence on the Domains of Nursing: Scoping Review.JMIR nursing · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND /
objectivesHealthcare professionals (HCP) are confronted with an increased demand for assessments of important health status measures, such as patient-reported outcome measurements (PROM), and the time this requires. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and acceptability of using an HCP robot assistant, and to test the hypothesis that a robot can autonomously acquire PROM data from older adults.
designA pilot randomised controlled cross-over study where a social robot and a nurse administered three PROM questionnaires with a total of 52 questions.
settingA clinical outpatient setting with community-dwelling older adults.
participantsForty-two community-dwelling older adults (mean age: 77.1 years, SD: 5.7 years, 45% female). MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was the task time required for robot-patient and nurse-patient interactions. Secondary outcomes were the similarity of the data and the percentage of robot interactions completed autonomously. The questionnaires resulted in two values (robot and nurse) for three indexes of frailty, well-being and resilience. The data similarity was determined by comparing these index values using Bland-Altman plots, Cohen's kappa (κ) and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). Acceptability was assessed using questionnaires.
resultsThe mean robot interview duration was 16.57 min (SD=1.53 min), which was not significantly longer than the nurse interviews (14.92 min, SD=8.47 min; p=0.19). The three Bland-Altman plots showed moderate to substantial agreement between the frailty, well-being and resilience scores (κ=0.61, 0.50 and 0.45, and ICC=0.79, 0.86 and 0.66, respectively). The robot autonomously completed 39 of 42 interviews (92.8%).
conclusionSocial robots may effectively and acceptably assist HCPs by interviewing older adults.
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