Using the MEDiPORT humanoid robot to reduce procedural pain and distress in children with cancer: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Jibb, Lindsay; Birnie, Kathryn A.; Nathan, Paul C.; Beran, Tanya; Hum, Vanessa; Victor, J. Charles; Stinson, Jennifer

doi:10.1002/pbc.27242

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“…In another study by Jibb et al. (2018) , the NAO robot was used to reduce the pain and stress experienced by children with cancer during Subcutaneous Port (SCP) needle insertions, a specific medical procedure.…”

Section: Robots and Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotics in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

Marchetti¹,

Dio²,

Manzi³

et al. 2022

Comprehensive Clinical Psychology

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Section: Robots and Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotics in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

Marchetti¹,

Dio²,

Manzi³

et al. 2022

Comprehensive Clinical Psychology

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“…Dur tgt − Dur trn Dur orig − Dur trn (6) where Dur tgt is the singing target duration and Dur orig is the original duration of the retrieved vowel. When the vowel is stretched, Dur trn accounts for the duration of the unscaled transition (shadowed areas in Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The audios generated for one of the five scores have been provided as Additional files 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23, and 24. Forty-nine Spanish native speakers took part in the test.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, in storytelling [2,3], when one of the characters sings at one point in the story, or in voice output communication aid devices for individuals with vocal disabilities [4] to allow them not only to talk, but also to sing. Moreover, a TTS with singing capabilities could also be useful in assistive technologies, where the incorporation of songs has been proved to be an effective form of improving the engagement of autistic children [5], or to reduce the procedural distress in children with cancer [6], or to augment the positive memories of people with dementia [7], to name a few.…”

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A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept

Freixes

Álías

Socoró

2019

J AUDIO SPEECH MUSIC PROC.

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Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems have been widely used in general-purpose applications based on the generation of speech. Nonetheless, there are some domains, such as storytelling or voice output aid devices, which may also require singing. To enable a corpus-based TTS system to sing, a supplementary singing database should be recorded. This solution, however, might be too costly for eventual singing needs, or even unfeasible if the original speaker is unavailable or unable to sing properly. This work introduces a unit selection-based text-to-speech-and-singing (US-TTS&S) synthesis framework, which integrates speech-to-singing (STS) conversion to enable the generation of both speech and singing from an input text and a score, respectively, using the same neutral speech corpus. The viability of the proposal is evaluated considering three vocal ranges and two tempos on a proof-of-concept implementation using a 2.6-h Spanish neutral speech corpus. The experiments show that challenging STS transformation factors are required to sing beyond the corpus vocal range and/or with notes longer than 150 ms. While score-driven US configurations allow the reduction of pitch-scale factors, timescale factors are not reduced due to the short length of the spoken vowels. Moreover, in the MUSHRA test, text-driven and score-driven US configurations obtain similar naturalness rates of around 40 for all the analysed scenarios. Although these naturalness scores are far from those of vocaloid, the singing scores of around 60 which were obtained validate that the framework could reasonably address eventual singing needs.

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“…One recent study of 57 children has demonstrated the effectiveness of child–robot interaction for reducing pain and distress during vaccination 25. A second study has shown reduction in distress, only, for 40 paediatric oncology patients requiring central venous access 26. It is timely to examine whether an interactive, humanoid robot can have an impact on children’s pain and distress associated with IVI.…”

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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of humanoid robot-based distraction for venipuncture pain in children

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IntroductionIntravenous insertion (IVI) is a very common procedure in the emergency department (ED). IVI is often painful and stressful for both children and their families. Currently, distraction therapy is not used as a standard of care for IVI in North America. We propose that interaction with a humanoid robot may effectively distract children during IVI thereby reducing their pain and distress.Methods and analysisThis randomised controlled superiority trial will be conducted in a Canadian paediatric ED. We plan to recruit 80 patients. Children will be eligible if they (1) are 6 to 11 years of age, (2) need an IVI, (3) are fully conscious and alert, (4) have sufficient knowledge of the English language to understand and complete the study assessments and (5) are accompanied by a legal guardian. Our primary objective is to compare patient-reported pain and distress with the use of distraction (via a humanoid robot) versus standard care in children. The primary outcomes will be (1) self-reported pain, as measured by the Faces Pain Scale—Revised and (2) observed distress, as measured by the Observational Scale of Behavioural Distress—Revised. Secondary outcomes will include (1) measuring parental anxiety, (2) examining the association between parental anxiety and child outcomes and (3) children’s degree of engagement with the humanoid robot via the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory tool. First enrolment occurred in April 2017 and is ongoing.Ethics and disseminationThis study has been approved by the Health Research Ethics Board (University of Alberta). Informed consent to participate will be obtained from all participants’ parents/guardian, in conjunction with assent from the participant themselves. This study data will be submitted for publication regardless of results. Purchase of the robot was facilitated through a Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation donation. Recruitment costs are supported by the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.Trial registration number NCT02997631; Pre-results.

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Using the MEDiPORT humanoid robot to reduce procedural pain and distress in children with cancer: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Abstract: The MEDiPORT study appears feasible to implement as an adequately-powered effectiveness-assessing trial following modifications to the intervention and study protocol. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02611739.

Cited by 74 publications

References 41 publications

Robotics in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

Robotics in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of humanoid robot-based distraction for venipuncture pain in children

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