An interventional study of Teaching and (CellScopeOTO) in Otitis Media, sponsored by Turku University Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Finland. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 35 Months, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-11-16.
Sponsored by Turku University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
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.
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Parents are taught to conduct cellphone otoscopy and if necessary study physician removes cerumen from childrens´ ear canals at the first study visit.
Other: Teaching · Device: (CellScopeOTO)
Families receive the cellphone otoscope as if they had bought it themselves from the internet. After the first study week, parents are taught to conduct cellphone otoscopy and if necessary study physician removes cerumen from childrens´ ear canals.
Device: (CellScopeOTO)
diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines
diagnostic quality of tympanic membrane imagines obtained by parents with cellphone otoscope
Time frame: first study week
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