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- Title
Use of Smart Glasses (Assisted Reality) for Western Australian X-ray Operators' Continuing Professional Development: A Pilot Study.
- Authors
Ng, Curtise K. C.; Baldock, Moira; Newman, Steven
- Abstract
Previous studies have explored use of smart glasses in telemedicine, but no study has investigated its use in teleradiography. The purpose of this study was to implement a six-month pilot program for Western Australian X-ray operators (XROs) to use smart glasses to obtain assisted reality support in their radiography practice from their supervising radiographers, and evaluate its effectiveness in terms of XROs' competence improvement and equipment usability. Pretest–posttest design with evaluation of the XROs' competence (including their X-ray image quality) and smart glasses usability by XROs in two remote centers and their supervising radiographers from two sites before and after the program using four questionnaire sets and X-ray image quality review was employed in this experimental study. Paired t-test was used for comparing mean values of the pre- and post-intervention pairs of 11-point scale questionnaire and image quality review items to determine any XROs' radiography competence improvements. Content analysis was used to analyze open questions about the equipment usability. Our study's findings based on 13 participants (11 XROs and 2 supervising radiographers) and 2053 X-ray images show that the assisted reality support helped to improve the XROs' radiography competence (specifically X-ray image quality), with mean post-intervention competence values of 6.16–7.39 (out of 10) and statistical significances (p < 0.001–0.05), and the equipment was considered effective for this purpose but not easy to use.
- Subjects
WESTERN Australia; RESEARCH funding; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; RURAL health; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; PILOT projects; CONTENT analysis; TEACHING methods; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; TELEMEDICINE; PRE-tests &; post-tests; EXPERIMENTAL design; VIDEOCONFERENCING; RESEARCH methodology; CONTINUING education; DATA analysis software; OPTICAL head-mounted displays; PROFESSIONAL competence
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2024, Vol 12, Issue 13, p1253
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare12131253