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Table 1 Study design

From: Study protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a digital-robotic-based intervention for nurses and patients in a hospital: a quantitative and qualitative triangulation based on the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

 

Aim

Design

Participants

Estimated sample size

Evaluation of nursing tasks, distances walked and utilization in nursing services

Description of the distances travelled and the assumption of activities that are not related to care, as well as a survey of the utilisation of these activities

Standardized observation and questionnaire

Nurses

30 observations and 100 questionnaires

User perspective on the usefulness, useability and integration of technologies

To investigate the perspective of the users with regard to the integration of the robotic system and its usefulness and effect on nursing care

qualitative cross-sectional survey

Nurses, Patients, Service assistants

Group discussion: Approx. n = 5; Individual Interviews: data saturation

Data evaluation of the technologies

Use behaviour of robot and app

quantitative cross-sectional survey

Robot, Application

Approx

n = 200–300