RightFit
RecruitingNot applicable

Acoustic Waveform Respiratory Evaluation

Advancing Telemedicine in Pulmonology: Acoustic-waveform Respiratory Evaluation (AWARE) Via Sensing and Machine Learning on Smartphones

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
8 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 2 weeks
  • Procedures mentioned: Questionnaires

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "The study protocol will include study questionnaires, anthropometry, body composition, and three sets of PFTs: spirometry, oscillometry, and AWARE."
  • "A subgroup of subjects will additionally perform AWARE at home for up to two weeks, allowing investigators to evaluate supervised vs unsupervised and in-clinic vs. at-home measurements."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests whether smartphone speakers and microphones can measure how open the airways are, find blockages, and help spot airway diseases and flare-ups. It is for healthy people and people with airway diseases, mostly ages 8 to 70.

The study will evaluate the feasibility of using smartphone speakers and microphones to evaluate the caliber of the airways, detect airway obstruction, aid in airway disease diagnosis, and identify disease exacerbations.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Age 8 to 70. People with COPD (a long-term lung disease) at the UPMC adult clinic may be up to age 75.
  • Able to do spirometry and oscillometry, two tests that measure how well you breathe.
  • Sign a form agreeing to join the study, with children also agreeing when needed.
  • Either have no breathing disease or other major disease, or have asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis (CF), or another airway disease diagnosed by a doctor.

Who can't join

  • Unable or unwilling to do AWARE (the study's smartphone breathing test) or the other breathing tests.
  • Have a short-term or long-term illness that the study team thinks could affect lung function and change the breathing test results.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 8-70 years (to ensure ability to perform other PFTs; up to 75 years for COPD subjects in the UPMC adult clinic only). 2. Ability to perform spirometry and oscillometry 3. Signed informed consent (and assent for children as appropriate) 4. No respiratory or other major disease (for healthy controls), or physician-diagnosed asthma, COPD, CF, or other airway diseases Exclusion Criteria: 1. Inability or unwillingness to perform AWARE, spirometry, or oscillometry 2. Acute or chronic illness that, at the judgement of investigators, may affect lung function and alter the results of AWARE or the reference PFTs (spirometry and AOS)

Study sites (2)

IN

PA