Parents InformaTion in Child REHABilitation

In France, approximaly 3 million children have a chronic disease and require regular care such as paediatric rehabilitation. These cares are provided over long periods of time, most often throughout childhood and often into adulthood. Paediatric rehabilitation care involves multidisciplinary team working closely with families. During follow-up rehabilitation, communication between the children, families and the professionals is essential. To this end, digital health solutions can be helpful.

Digital health solutions are rapidly emerging in the field of paediatric rehabilitation. In this context of emergence of digital health solutions, it is essential to identify the needs and expectations of families of children with a chronic disease.

This project aims to identify the key points in terms of information exchange on rehabilitation monitoring. To identify these needs, a mixed study will be carried out from June 2022 to June 2023 involving focus groups to gather qualitative informations on parent's needs in terms of information exchange through digital apps and quantitative research with a survey that will allow to prioritise these needs.

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Key information

Conditions

Children with Chronic Condition Behavior Chronic Disease Communication Disease Attributes Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Fondation Ildys

Brest, 29200, France

About this study

For the first part of the study, the researchers will conduct focus groups and interview parents about their experiences and perceptions of information exchange with rehabilitation professionals. All the participants will be parents of a child with a chronic disease, aged between 0 and 18 years and receiving paediatric rehabilitation care. The objective of this first part is to collect qualitative information on the needs of parents in terms of information exchange through digital applications.

With the analysis of the focus group, the researchers will define the hypothesis.

Then, a survey will be built and shared online in France during 3 months (2nd semester 2022).

With this survey, the objective is to identify the key points for the development of paediatric rehabilitation apps in terms of information exchange.

Quantitative data will be described with frequency, mean and standard deviation.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

parents of a child (0-18 years) with a chronic condition and with a rehabiilitation follow up

Exclusion criteria

parents who do not speak french
parents with an intellectual disability (for the first part : focus group)

Treatment and study plan

Focus group and online survey

Other

Focus group with parents of children with disabilities or chronic condition will be organized to identify hypotheses regarding their needs in terms of informations exchange with pediatric rehabilitation professionals about the rehabilitation care of their children.

Then, an online survey will be proposed to parents of children with disabilities or chronic condition in France to identify their needs regarding the development of apps that offer the feature to share informations with rehabilitation professionals.

Primary outcomes

key elements desired by parents in the apps aiming to share informations with rehabilitation professionals

Time frame: june 2022 - june 2023

The aim is to identify the key priority elements for parents in the design of mobile apps for information exchange with rehabilitation professionals.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fondation Ildys

Other

Collaborators

University Hospital, Brest

Registry information

Acronym: PITChREHAB

Important dates

Study start: 2022
Primary completion: 2023
Study completion: 2023
First posted: Sep 21, 2022
Registry last updated: Mar 12, 2025

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