P vs I: Paper vs. Internet

Sponsor

University of British Columbia (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT01772459

Collaborator

iACT - Innovations in Acute Care and Technology (Other)

139

Enrollment

Location

Duration (Months)

3.6

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Research has shown that questionnaires completed on the internet have the potential to provide more complete and honest data with fewer errors in a more efficient manner than questionnaires completed using the paper and pencil format. Despite the numerous advantages of internet-administered questionnaires, it is important to make sure that the internet questionnaires will yield comparable results to the well-established paper and pencil versions. No one has studied internet administration of scoliosis specific questionnaires in adolescents with scoliosis. The investigators will test whether the internet administration of scoliosis questionnaires is as reliable as the traditional paper and pencil version. The investigators predict that the internet-administered questionnaire will provide the same reliability as the paper-administered questionnaires.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Idiopathic Scoliosis Adolescent

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

139 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Internet-administered Adolescent Scoliosis Questionnaires Compared With Traditional Pencil and Paper Versions: a Randomized Crossover Design

Study Start Date :

Aug 1, 2010

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Nov 1, 2013

Actual Study Completion Date :

Nov 1, 2013

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Paper/Paper This group will complete paper questionnaires at baseline and two week follow up.
Paper/Internet This group will complete paper questionnaires at baseline and internet questionnaires at two week follow up.
Internet/Paper This group will complete internet questionnaires at baseline and paper questionnaires at two week follow up.
Internet/Internet This group will complete internet questionnaires at baseline and two week follow up.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

To test the reliability of the internet-administered PODCI and SRS-30 questionnaires in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis [2 weeks]
The reliability of internet-administered questionnaires will be determined by comparison to standard paper questionnaire implementation.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

10 Years to 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

Aged 10-18
Male or female
Diagnosis of Adolescent or Juvenile Idiopathic Scoliosis
Home access to computer and internet
Capable or oral and written communication in English

Exclusion Criteria:

Unable to communicate in English

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	British Columbia Children's Hospital	Vancouver	British Columbia	Canada	V6H 3V4

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of British Columbia
iACT - Innovations in Acute Care and Technology

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Chris Reilly, MD, FRCSC, University of British Columbia

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

University of British Columbia

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01772459

Other Study ID Numbers:

H10-01785
CW10-0184

First Posted:

Jan 21, 2013

Last Update Posted:

Jun 23, 2014

Last Verified:

Jun 1, 2014

Keywords provided by University of British Columbia

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Scoliosis

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jun 23, 2014