TRANSFORM: The development of a mobile phone app to capture the journey time and patient experience throughout a day in the life of cancer patient attending hospital.

Overview

People Involved

Dr Charlotte Kelly C.E.Kelly@hull.ac.uk
Career Development Fellow

Professor Fliss Murtagh F.Murtagh@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Palliative Care

Professor Una Macleod U.M.Macleod@hull.ac.uk
Dean / Professor of Primary Care Medicine

Professor Grant Abt G.Abt@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Exercise Physiology

Mr Warren Viant W.J.Viant@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer

Ms Helen Roberts Helen.Roberts@hull.ac.uk
Patient and Public Involvement Coordinator

Project Description

People with cancer have to travel to specialist cancer hospitals to access treatments such as radiotherapy. A number of studies have identified an association between patients living further away from a cancer centre and being less likely to be treated with radiotherapy. For those who do travel, difficult journeys to and from hospital coupled with the time needed to attend appointments can make patients even more unwell by causing anxiety and stress and just the physical toll of travelling. We propose the development of a mobile phone app to collect the patients’ experience of journeying to hospital and time spent in hospital. This mobile app will also document the patient experience allowing voice recordings and recording of responses to defined questions at points along the journey. The study will produce a mobile phone app that can be applied in future research grants with patients attending healthcare settings.

Project Acronym	TRANSFORM
Status	Project Complete
Value	£25,088.00
Project Dates	Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
Partner Organisations	No Partners

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