AgingCARESSESNCT03756194
CARESSES Testing and Evaluation Phases
A study testing Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution in people with Aging, run by University of Bedfordshire at 1 site in United Kingdom.
Trial summary
The aim of this study is to conduct and evaluate a controlled experimental trial aimed at exploring whether, to what extent and how a socially-assistive Pepper robot that operates on a unique CARESSES cultural competence solution can produce better health and well-being related outcomes among older adults residing in… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 65 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Aging
- What is being tested?
- Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution
- Type of treatment
- Medical device
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 90 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited Kingdom
- Study dates
- 15 Feb 2019to 31 Jan 2020
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 65 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Aged ≥ 65 years.
- Reside in an eligible Advinia care home in the UK or within the HISUISUI facility in Japan.
- Reside in a single occupancy bedroom / bedroom area.
- Identify themselves as primarily belonging to the White-English or Indian cultures (UK site only), or Japanese culture (Japan site only).
- Unlikely to express aggression towards themselves, the robot, and/or the researcher (as assessed by the interRAI- Long Term Care Facility (LTCF) tool Aggressive Behaviour Scale (ABS) < 1).
- Have the cognitive ability to participate in the study (as assessed by the interRAI-LTCF tool Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS) ≤ 2).
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- Unlikely to fall ill and be hospitalized during study period (as assessed by the FRAIL-NH scale ≤ 10)
- Verbally able to communicate in and understand English (UK site only) or Japanese (Japan site only).
- Aged ≥18 years.
- Have visited the participant in the care home within the past 3 months.
- Provide any type of informal help, care and/or support to the participant.
- Are a relative, partner, friend or neighbour who has a significant personal relationship with the participant.
- Are not paid or officially employed to provide care to the participant.
- Able to communicate in and understand English (UK site) or Japanese (Japanese site).
Who cannot join
- Aged < 65 years.
- Reside in multiple-occupancy bedrooms (UK site only)
- Do not identify themselves as primarily belonging to the Indian, White-English or Japanese culture.
- Likely to express aggression towards themselves the robot, and/or the researcher (as assessed by the interRAI-LTCF tool ABS ≥ 1).
- Do not have sufficient cognitive ability to participate in the study (as assessed by the interRAI-LTCF tool CPS > 2).
- Likely to fall ill and be hospitalized during study period (as assessed by the FRAIL-NH scale > 10)
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- Not able to communicate in and understand English (UK site only) or Japanese (Japan site only).
- Aged < 18 years.
- Have not visited the participant in the care home within the past 3 months.
- Not able to verbally communicate in and understand English (UK site only) or Japanese (Japan site only).
- Are formally paid to provide care to the participant.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United Kingdom1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, LU1 3JU
Rosemary Davidson, Dr, +44 7966676974, rosemary.davidson@beds.ac.uk
About this study
Official title: 'Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support' (CARESSES) - Testing and Evaluation Phases
The aim of this study is to conduct and evaluate a controlled experimental trial aimed at exploring whether, to what extent and how a socially-assistive Pepper robot that operates on a unique CARESSES cultural competence solution can produce better health and well-being related outcomes among older adults residing in long stay care homes (and their informal carers) compared to a control socially-assistive Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solution, as well as care as usual.
Read the detailed description
The objective of the "Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support' (CARESSES) project is to build culturally competent robots that are able to re-configure their way of acting and speaking when offering a service to a person they are assisting, and match his / her culture, customs and etiquette. This study will test and evaluate robots that have been configured to provide a culturally-competent care to older adults residing in care homes. It is hypothesised that by introducing robots, which are more sensitive to the user's needs and able to adapt to his / her cultural background, the CARESSES' innovative solution will offer a safe, reliable and intuitive system that fosters independence and autonomy, improves quality of life of older adults, and also reduces informal carer's burden. The methodology adopted to develop this culturally competent solution is based on the principles of Transcultural Nursing, specifically on Hofstede's Cultural dimensions theory (for describing general cultural characteristics at national level) and on Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor's model of cultural competence.
At the heart of the CARESSES software is a cultural knowledge base (CKB) that stores all the required information about the user and his / her cultural background. CKB was developed using the guidelines provided by the experts in Transcultural Nursing, who identified through field observations differences and similarities between individuals within three cultural groups (i.e. White-English, Indian and Japanese) in order to avoid as much as possible stereotyping and to provide suggestions regarding how likely culturally-specific behaviours are valid for an individual belonging to the cultural group.
The study will employ a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) single-blind, controlled before-and-after experimental design with two testing sites (UK and Japan), in which participants will either be purposefully allocated to an experimental arm (who will receive and be assisted by the CARESSES robot), control arm 1 (who will receive and be assisted by the control CARESSES robot) or control arm 2 (who will receive care as usual). Between and within subjects comparisons will be used to evaluate whether and how the assistance of a CARESSES Pepper robot improves health and well-being related outcomes among care home residents and their informal carers. Eligible older adults from three cultural groups (White-English, Indian and Japanese) will be recruited from the UK-based (White-English and Indian cultural backgrounds only) and Japanese-based testing sites. Additionally, the participants will be requested to nominate up to three informal carers of their choice who will also be invited to take part in the study, but to a different degree. After the recruitment, the participants from both sites will then be purposefully allocated to either an experimental arm (UK site: n=10; Japan site: n=5) that will adopt the CARESSES robot, or to a control arm 1 (UK site: n=10; Japan site: n=5) that will adopt the CARESSES control robot, or to control arm 2 (UK site: n=10; Japan site n=5).
In the UK site, each of the arms will include five participants who primarily identify themselves with the White-English culture, and five participants who primarily identify themselves with the Indian culture. In the Japan site, three arms will only include participants who primarily identify themselves with the Japanese culture. The participants allocated to the control arm 2 will engage in testing first, followed by the control arm 1 and then the experimental arm. Testing will occur on two participants at any one time in the UK site, and on one participant in the Japan site. Each participant will adopt a Pepper robot over a period of two weeks.
Prior to commencing the full-scale study, a pre-trial feasibility pilot will be conducted aimed at assessing the feasibility and acceptability of the screening, recruitment and evaluation procedures, as well as identifying and tackling any technical issues associated with the implementation of the CARESSES robot within a care home. One resident, who primarily identifies himself / herself with the White-English culture and one informal carer will be invited to take part in the pilot study. The evaluation procedure will take place in a condensed format across one week (9 hours) rather than two weeks (18 hours) as during the full-scale study.
- Conditions
- Aging
- Being tested
- Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution, Socially-assistive control Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solution
- Keywords
- Aged, Elders, Robotics, Cultural competence, Quality of life, Loneliness, Technology acceptance, Social robotics, Informal caregiver, Homes for the aged
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solutionDevice
Week 1. On the first day, training will be provided to the participants enabling them to familiarise themselves with the robot's functionalities. The robot will be culturally aware i.e., it will be aware of the participants' cultural background prior to the testing commencing. As such, it will pre-load the appropriate CKB and apply this during its time with the participants. During the next two sessions, the robot will interact and provide culturally-competent assistance, however, it will not learn and adjust to the participants' individual cultural values and preferences.
Week 2. The participants will again utilize the robot for three days, but it now will learn from the responses it receives from them, consequently interacting in a culture-specific personalised way.
Socially-assistive control Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solutionDevice
Week 1. On the first day, training will be provided to the participants enabling them to familiarise themselves with the robot's functionalities. During the next two sessions, the CARESSES control robot will not be culturally aware: it will pre-load a generic and more limited CKB that is not tailored for anyone's cultural profile. It will also not learn and adjust to the participants' values and preferences.
Week 2. Participants will again utilize the robot for three days, but the CARESSES control robot will now be configured to be able to learn and adapt to the individual's particular profile. This robot's learning will not include propagation: improving its cultural knowledge base in one area will not also automatically lead to knowledge improvements in other related areas. This robot will possess the same full suite of functions as the CARESSES robot although will be less likely to offer these in a culturally appropriate way.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental | Experimental | Participants will utilize the socially-assistive robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution during 6 sessions (3 times per week, e.g., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; for a total of 2 weeks) of 3 hours at a time.
Baseline and follow-up assessments will be conducted prior to the beginning of the trials and shortly after the end of the last session accordingly. Receives: Device: Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution |
| Control arm 1 | Other | Participants will utilize the socially-assistive control robot with an alternative CARESSES solution during 6 sessions (3 times per week, e.g., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; for a total of 2 weeks) of 3 hours at a time.
Baseline and follow-up assessments will be conducted prior to the beginning of the trials and shortly after the end of the last session accordingly. Receives: Device: Socially-assistive control Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solution |
| Control arm 2 | No intervention | Participants will be receiving conventional human care with no robot intervention. Baseline assessments will be conducted as soon as participants are recruited and allocated to the study arm. Follow-up assessments will be conducted in two weeks after the baseline data collection. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Cultural Competence Assessment Tool -Robotics (CCATool-Robotics): change in perceptions of the robot's cultural competency when assistance provided with and without personalisation.
The measurement tool is an adaptation of the RCTSH Cultural Competence Assessment Tool (CCATool; Papadopoulos, Tilki, and Lees, 2004). The current tool is designed to measure older adults' perceptions of the CARESSES robot's cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence. The tool comprises of 28 statements that participants use to rate their level of agreement with.
Measured: Two sessions, approximately 15 minutes each in length
Secondary outcomes (7)
Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36
The SF-36v2 (Hays, Sherbourne, \& Mazel, 1993) is a multi-purpose, short-form health survey with 36 questions proven to be useful in surveys of general and specific populations, including older adults. It measures the following eight dimensions: general health, bodily pain, emotional role limitation, physical role limitation, mental health, vitality, physical functioning and social functioning. Each dimension score has values between 0 and 100, in which 0 means dead and 100 perfect health.
Measured: Two sessions, approximately 20 minutes each in length
The Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI)
A 22-item self-report inventory is aimed at evaluating subjective care burden among informal carers (Zarit, Reever, \& Bach-Peterson, 1980). Its validity and reliability have been widely established. The scale items examine burden associated with functional / behavioural impairments and care situations. Each item is scored on a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from "never" to "nearly always present." A total score is obtained with higher scores indicting higher care burden among informal carers.
Measured: Two sessions, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Short form University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (ULS-8)
Loneliness will be measured using the Short-Form Measure of Loneliness (Hays \& DiMatteo, 1987). The scale is comprised of eight items to assess loneliness ("I lack companionship", "There is no one I can turn to", "I am an outgoing person", "I feel left out", "I feel isolation from others", "I can find companionship when I want it", "I am unhappy being so withdrawn", "People are around me but not with me") using a 4-point Likert scale with values ranging from "never" to "always". To obtain a total score, all values are added up, and the higher scores are, the bigger feeling of loneliness may be presumed.
Measured: Two sessions, approximately 8 minutes each in length
Questionnaire for user interface satisfaction (QUIS)
A measure of overall system satisfaction along six scales, and hierarchically organized measures of eleven specific interface factors (screen factors, terminology and system feedback, learning factors, system capabilities, technical manuals, on-line tutorials, multimedia, voice recognition, virtual environments, internet access, and software installation; Chin, Diehl, \& Norman, 1988). Each area measures the users' overall satisfaction with that facet of the interface, as well as the factors that make up that facet, on a 9-point scale. The questionnaire is designed to be configured according to the needs of each interface analysis by including only the sections that are of interest to the user. Taking into consideration the context of the current study, "the software" is replaced by "the robot" where required.
Measured: One session, approximately 10 minutes in length
Negative attitudes towards robots scale (NARS)
This scale assesses participants' attitudes towards robots (Nomura, Kanda, Suzuki, \& Kato, 2004). NARS is comprised of 14 items scored on a 5-point Likert Scale (1= I completely disagree; 5=I completely agree), which in turn belong to three subscales: S1 measures "situations of interaction with robots," S2 measures "social influence of robots," and S3 measures "emotions in interaction with robots".
Measured: Two sessions, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Older adults' perceptions of the robot's cultural competence and overall experience
Semi-structured interviews with older adults from the experimental group will be conducted to elicit their perceptions of the robot's cultural competence; acceptability of and satisfaction with the robot interactions; quality of service provided; and impact the robot had upon their health and well-being, independence and autonomy.
Measured: One session, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Informal carers' experience of using the robot
Semi-structured interviews with informal carers' from the experimental group will be conducted to receive their feedback on whether and how the robot reduced any feelings of carer burden and stress; their perceptions of whether and how the robot impacted upon the quality of life of both themselves and the resident; and perceptions regarding the robot's ease of use when interacting with it.
Measured: One session, approximately 20 minutes each in length
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted28 Nov 2018
- Study start15 Feb 2019
- Primary completion31 Oct 2019 (estimated)
- Study completion31 Jan 2020 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for AgingStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 90 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Bedfordshire
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Università degli Studi of Genova, Örebro University, Sweden, Middlesex University, SoftBank Robotics Europe, Advinia Health Care limited, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Chubu University
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Dr Chris Papadopoulos, University of Bedfordshire
- Investigators
- Antonio Sgorbissa, ASSOC PROFESSOR, Principal investigator, Università di Genova
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03756194
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CARESSES No 737858
- Acronym
- CARESSES
- Status last verified
- Oct 2019
- First submitted
- 19 Nov 2018
- Last updated
- 14 Oct 2019
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Papadopoulos C, Hill T, Battistuzzi L, Castro N, Nigath A, Randhawa G, Merton L, Kanoria S, Kamide H, Chong NY, Hewson D, Davidson R, Sgorbissa A. The CARESSES study protocol: testing and evaluating culturally competent socially assistive robots among older adults residing in long term care homes through a controlled experimental trial. Arch Public Health. 2020 Mar 20;78:26. doi: 10.1186/s13690-020-00409-y. eCollection 2020.
PubMed 32206312
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 14 Oct 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- 'Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support' (CARESSES) - Testing and Evaluation Phases
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03756194
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CARESSES / CARESSES No 737858
- Conditions
- Aging
- Keywords
- Aged, Elders, Robotics, Cultural competence, Quality of life, Loneliness, Technology acceptance, Social robotics
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 90 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of BedfordshireUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Università degli Studi of Genova, Örebro University, Sweden, Middlesex University, SoftBank Robotics Europe, Advinia Health Care limited, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Chubu University
- Study start
- 15 Feb 2019 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 31 Oct 2019 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 31 Jan 2020 (estimated)
- First posted
- 28 Nov 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The aim of this study is to conduct and evaluate a controlled experimental trial aimed at exploring whether, to what extent and how a socially-assistive Pepper robot that operates on a unique CARESSES cultural competence solution can produce better health and well-being related outcomes among older adults residing in long stay care homes (and their informal carers) compared to a control socially-assistive Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solution, as well as care as usual.
Detailed description
The objective of the "Culture-Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support' (CARESSES) project is to build culturally competent robots that are able to re-configure their way of acting and speaking when offering a service to a person they are assisting, and match his / her culture, customs and etiquette. This study will test and evaluate robots that have been configured to provide a culturally-competent care to older adults residing in care homes. It is hypothesised that by introducing robots, which are more sensitive to the user's needs and able to adapt to his / her cultural background, the CARESSES' innovative solution will offer a safe, reliable and intuitive system that fosters independence and autonomy, improves quality of life of older adults, and also reduces informal carer's burden. The methodology adopted to develop this culturally competent solution is based on the principles of Transcultural Nursing, specifically on Hofstede's Cultural dimensions theory (for describing general cultural characteristics at national level) and on Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor's model of cultural competence.
At the heart of the CARESSES software is a cultural knowledge base (CKB) that stores all the required information about the user and his / her cultural background. CKB was developed using the guidelines provided by the experts in Transcultural Nursing, who identified through field observations differences and similarities between individuals within three cultural groups (i.e. White-English, Indian and Japanese) in order to avoid as much as possible stereotyping and to provide suggestions regarding how likely culturally-specific behaviours are valid for an individual belonging to the cultural group.
The study will employ a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) single-blind, controlled before-and-after experimental design with two testing sites (UK and Japan), in which participants will either be purposefully allocated to an experimental arm (who will receive and be assisted by the CARESSES robot), control arm 1 (who will receive and be assisted by the control CARESSES robot) or control arm 2 (who will receive care as usual). Between and within subjects comparisons will be used to evaluate whether and how the assistance of a CARESSES Pepper robot improves health and well-being related outcomes among care home residents and their informal carers. Eligible older adults from three cultural groups (White-English, Indian and Japanese) will be recruited from the UK-based (White-English and Indian cultural backgrounds only) and Japanese-based testing sites. Additionally, the participants will be requested to nominate up to three informal carers of their choice who will also be invited to take part in the study, but to a different degree. After the recruitment, the participants from both sites will then be purposefully allocated to either an experimental arm (UK site: n=10; Japan site: n=5) that will adopt the CARESSES robot, or to a control arm 1 (UK site: n=10; Japan site: n=5) that will adopt the CARESSES control robot, or to control arm 2 (UK site: n=10; Japan site n=5).
In the UK site, each of the arms will include five participants who primarily identify themselves with the White-English culture, and five participants who primarily identify themselves with the Indian culture. In the Japan site, three arms will only include participants who primarily identify themselves with the Japanese culture. The participants allocated to the control arm 2 will engage in testing first, followed by the control arm 1 and then the experimental arm. Testing will occur on two participants at any one time in the UK site, and on one participant in the Japan site. Each participant will adopt a Pepper robot over a period of two weeks.
Prior to commencing the full-scale study, a pre-trial feasibility pilot will be conducted aimed at assessing the feasibility and acceptability of the screening, recruitment and evaluation procedures, as well as identifying and tackling any technical issues associated with the implementation of the CARESSES robot within a care home. One resident, who primarily identifies himself / herself with the White-English culture and one informal carer will be invited to take part in the pilot study. The evaluation procedure will take place in a condensed format across one week (9 hours) rather than two weeks (18 hours) as during the full-scale study.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 3
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental | Experimental | Device: Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solutionParticipants will utilize the socially-assistive robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution during 6 sessions (3 times per week, e.g., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; for a total of 2 weeks) of 3 hours at a time. Baseline and follow-up assessments will be conducted prior to the beginning of the trials and shortly after the end of the last session accordingly. |
| Control arm 1 | Other | Device: Socially-assistive control Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solutionParticipants will utilize the socially-assistive control robot with an alternative CARESSES solution during 6 sessions (3 times per week, e.g., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; for a total of 2 weeks) of 3 hours at a time. Baseline and follow-up assessments will be conducted prior to the beginning of the trials and shortly after the end of the last session accordingly. |
| Control arm 2 | No intervention | –Participants will be receiving conventional human care with no robot intervention. Baseline assessments will be conducted as soon as participants are recruited and allocated to the study arm. Follow-up assessments will be conducted in two weeks after the baseline data collection. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 65 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (14 listed)
- Aged ≥ 65 years.
- Reside in an eligible Advinia care home in the UK or within the HISUISUI facility in Japan.
- Reside in a single occupancy bedroom / bedroom area.
- Identify themselves as primarily belonging to the White-English or Indian cultures (UK site only), or Japanese culture (Japan site only).
- Unlikely to express aggression towards themselves, the robot, and/or the researcher (as assessed by the interRAI- Long Term Care Facility (LTCF) tool Aggressive Behaviour Scale (ABS) < 1).
Key exclusion criteria (11 listed)
- Aged < 65 years.
- Reside in multiple-occupancy bedrooms (UK site only)
- Do not identify themselves as primarily belonging to the Indian, White-English or Japanese culture.
- Likely to express aggression towards themselves the robot, and/or the researcher (as assessed by the interRAI-LTCF tool ABS ≥ 1).
- Do not have sufficient cognitive ability to participate in the study (as assessed by the interRAI-LTCF tool CPS > 2).
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solutionWeek 1. On the first day, training will be provided to the participants enabling them to familiarise themselves with the robot's functionalities. The robot will be culturally aware i.e., it will be aware of the participants' cultural background prior to the testing commencing. As such, it will pre-load the appropriate CKB and apply this during its time with the participants. During the next two sessions, the robot will interact and provide culturally-competent assistance, however, it will not learn and adjust to the participants' individual cultural values and preferences. Week 2. The participants will again utilize the robot for three days, but it now will learn from the responses it receives from them, consequently interacting in a culture-specific personalised way. | Device | Experimental |
| Socially-assistive control Pepper robot with an alternative CARESSES solutionWeek 1. On the first day, training will be provided to the participants enabling them to familiarise themselves with the robot's functionalities. During the next two sessions, the CARESSES control robot will not be culturally aware: it will pre-load a generic and more limited CKB that is not tailored for anyone's cultural profile. It will also not learn and adjust to the participants' values and preferences. Week 2. Participants will again utilize the robot for three days, but the CARESSES control robot will now be configured to be able to learn and adapt to the individual's particular profile. This robot's learning will not include propagation: improving its cultural knowledge base in one area will not also automatically lead to knowledge improvements in other related areas. This robot will possess the same full suite of functions as the CARESSES robot although will be less likely to offer these in a culturally appropriate way. | Device | Control arm 1 |
Primary outcome
Cultural Competence Assessment Tool -Robotics (CCATool-Robotics): change in perceptions of the robot's cultural competency when assistance provided with and without personalisation.
Time frame: Two sessions, approximately 15 minutes each in length
The measurement tool is an adaptation of the RCTSH Cultural Competence Assessment Tool (CCATool; Papadopoulos, Tilki, and Lees, 2004). The current tool is designed to measure older adults' perceptions of the CARESSES robot's cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence. The tool comprises of 28 statements that participants use to rate their level of agreement with.
7 secondary outcomes
Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36
Time frame: Two sessions, approximately 20 minutes each in length
The Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI)
Time frame: Two sessions, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Short form University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (ULS-8)
Time frame: Two sessions, approximately 8 minutes each in length
Questionnaire for user interface satisfaction (QUIS)
Time frame: One session, approximately 10 minutes in length
Negative attitudes towards robots scale (NARS)
Time frame: Two sessions, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Older adults' perceptions of the robot's cultural competence and overall experience
Time frame: One session, approximately 5 minutes each in length
Informal carers' experience of using the robot
Time frame: One session, approximately 20 minutes each in length
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 14 Oct 2019.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 32206312Papadopoulos C, Hill T, Battistuzzi L, Castro N, Nigath A, Randhawa G, Merton L, Kanoria S, Kamide H, Chong NY, Hewson D, Davidson R, Sgorbissa A. The CARESSES study protocol: testing and evaluating culturally competent socially assistive robots among older adults residing in long term care homes through a controlled experimental trial. Arch Public Health. 2020 Mar 20;78:26. doi: 10.1186/s13690-020-00409-y. eCollection 2020.
- Related InfoLink provided by the sponsor.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Antonio Sgorbissa, ASSOC PROFESSOR principal investigator
Università di Genova
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Socially-assistive Pepper robot with a CARESSES cultural competence solution in people with Aging, run by University of Bedfordshire at 1 site in United Kingdom.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 14 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 Oct 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Chris Papadopoulos, Dr (+44 (0) 7719021766, Chris.Papadopoulos@beds.ac.uk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Cultural Competence Assessment Tool -Robotics (CCATool-Robotics): change in perceptions of the robot's cultural competency when assistance provided with and without personalisation. (time frame: Two sessions, approximately 15 minutes each in length). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03756194, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 Oct 2019.