Factors Influencing Home Nursing Care Service

This pilot study investigates the feasibility of a prospective longitudinal observational approach to identify variables influencing home nursing care time. Conducted within the ULSS 6 Euganea health district in Italy, the study will analyze nursing care and travel time across approximately 350 home visits involving up to 200 voluntarily enrolled adult patients. Data will be collected anonymously by nurses using a digital tool (REDCap), capturing a predefined core set of variables previously selected via the Delphi method. The study aims to understand the association between individual, contextual, and organizational variables and the time required for home nursing interventions. Results will inform better planning and resource allocation for home care services.

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Key information

Conditions

Home Care Services

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

all patients receiving home care nursing services who agree to voluntary participation

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Factors thath influence home care nurses

Time frame: From the enrollment to the end of the study at two months
Measure the factors that influence the work of home care nurses in individual subjects and different territorial contexts in relation to care time.
- patient's socioeconomic status (age, level of education, understanding of italian language, rural or urban context,..)
- patient's clinical status (hospitalizations, type of assistance needed, type of support, diagnosis, mobility status..)
- caregiver (type, hours of formal and informal caregiving, coping, knowledge of the patient's medical history,..)
- visit specific variables (presence of animals, number of services provided, time required for the service in minutes,..)
- IDC-PAL items

Secondary outcomes

Time and space spent by the nurse traveling to the patient's home

Time frame: From the enrollment to the end at two months

Travel times in minutes and distance traveled in Kilometers, calculated by the nurses from departure to arrival at each patients' home.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Matteo Martinato, MSc, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+39 3358769308

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Padova

Other

Collaborators

Azienda Ulss 6 Euganea

Registry information

Official study title

Factors Influencing Home Nursing Care Service: a Pilot Study Shedding Light Over the Feasibility

Acronym: HoNuCaS-01

Important dates

Study start: 2025
Primary completion: 2025
Study completion: 2025
First posted: Aug 1, 2025
Registry last updated: Aug 1, 2025

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