Family MobilePhone Otoscopy in Diagnostics of Otitis Media

Turku University Hospital41 enrolled

Overview

This is a one-center clinical study carried out in Turku, Finland. The study patients will be randomly allocated to one of the two parallel study groups (teaching group and control group). The hypothesis is that the diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines is better when parents have been taught to conduct middle ear examination with a cellphone otoscope (CellScopeOTO) as compared to no teaching. Furthermore, this study aims at evaluating the diagnostic feasibility of cellphone otoscopy.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Otitis Media

Interventions

TeachingOTHER

(CellScopeOTO)DEVICE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 MonthsMax age: 35 MonthsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age 6 - 35 mo * Parents have iPhone 5, 5s or 6 * Child is in daycare * Child has had at least one acute otitis media within 90 days preceding the enrollment * Family agrees to give a mortgage of 40 euros from the CellScopeOTO Exclusion Criteria: * Tympastonomy tube present in tympanic membrane * Chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane * Condition of head/neck anomaly to affect middle ear or ear canal anatomy * One child from the family already participating

Locations (1)

Turku University Hospital

Turku, Finland

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines

diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines obtained by parents with cellphone otoscope

Time frame: first study week

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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