iPad Use in Reducing Anxiety and Depression in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Anxiety, Depression, Malignant Neoplasm
In brief
This randomized clinical trial studies iPad use in reducing anxiety and depression in patients undergoing bone marrow transplant. A tablet device like the iPad can provide access to music, television, movies, books, and the Internet. It also contains a video conferencing system that can allow patients to communicate with family members and other members of their social support team. With these capabilities, an iPad distribution program may help lessen patient anxiety and depression during a hospital stay. Monitoring iPad use by patients may help doctors better understand how patients use their computers and tablets while in the hospital so that the software and applications of the iPad can be made more useful.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02378012
- Run by
- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
- People needed
- 6
- Starts
- 2014-03-19
- Expected to finish
- 2014-09-06
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-06-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult patients undergoing treatment in the bone marrow transplant (BMT) unit on the 3rd floor of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
- Patients receiving reduced intensity chemotherapy for an allogeneic stem cell transplant
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who lack the visual or motor skills necessary to use a tablet device like the Apple iPad
- Criteria for visual proficiency will be determined by asking the patient: do you have trouble reading a newspaper even with your glasses or contacts (if you wear them); if "yes", they will be excluded
- Criteria for motor skill proficiency will be determined by asking the patient: do you have any trouble using a television remote control; if "yes", they will be excluded
- Patients who do not speak English
Where it is running
- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University Medical Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States
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