Family MobilePhone Otoscopy in Diagnostics of Otitis Media

Family MobilePhone Otoscopy in Diagnostics of Otitis Media. (Family mOTO-Study)

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.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 6 - 35 mo
• Parents have iPhone 5, 5s or 6
• Child is in daycare
• Child has had at least one acute otitis media within 90 days preceding the enrollment
• Family agrees to give a mortgage of 40 euros from the CellScopeOTO

Exclusion Criteria:

• Tympastonomy tube present in tympanic membrane
• Chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane
• Condition of head/neck anomaly to affect middle ear or ear canal anatomy
• One child from the family already participating