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NCT Number: NCT00315094

Technological Home Care: Improving HPN Care With Videophone And Internet Education

The purpose of this study is to help people with home parenteral nutrition (HPN) to avoid infections and feelings of depression or fatigue and to test how their health and quality of life change over time. Another purpose is to test the nurse teaching sessions and the method of obtaining support from the peer partner through videophone.

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Key information

Conditions

Home Parenteral Nutrition

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, 66160, United States

About this study

Aim #1 Hypothesis

  • Dyad (patient-caregiver) participation in health care management and problem-solving method use with professionals will be greater in the experimental group than the control group
  • Dyad reactive depression will be lower in the experimental group than the control group
  • Dyad quality of life will be higher in the experimental group than the control group
  • Dyad health status scores will be higher and the dyad sleepiness scale will be lower in experimental group than the control group
  • Dyad Health Services Use will be lower in the experimental group than the control group
  • Catheter-related infections will be lower in the experimental than control patients

Aim #2 Hypotheses:

  • What is the cost of using the FamTechCare system compared to traditional care?
  • Is there a difference between efficiency scores of the experimental and control groups intervention, boosters and relative to dyads long-term health services use at 24 months?
  • What are the relationships among patient outcome variables and caregivers' rating of virtual nurse caring and caregiver adaption?
  • What are the relationships among use of FamTechCare, dyad participation in health care management scale score and dyad access to the Internet Weighted Score?

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • 18 years or older
  • Caregivers of HPN patients short- or long-term HPN
  • able to participate in writing and other intervention activities
  • able to speak/read/write English or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, hallucinations) and physical disabilities that prevent use of intervention

Treatment and study plan

Caregiving support interventions (FamTechCare)

Behavioral

One set of combined interventions to be tested in this study are nursing interventions for the prevention of catheter-related infection, reactive depression, and HPN home care problem-solving. The other set of combined interventions are for increasing social support and use of a short nap to reduce daily fatigue. Information about all the interventions were incorporated into Internet formats as a booster for reinforcement.

Primary outcomes

  1. Catheter related infection, depression, problem-solving and quality of life scores.

    Time frame: Experimental arm at T6, Control arm at T9.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Ratings of virtual nurse caring

    Time frame: Experimental arm at T6, Control arm at T9.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Kansas

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Registry information

Official study title

Prevention of Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) Infection, Depression and Improving Caregiving Problem Solving

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2010
Study completion
2011
First posted
Apr 17, 2006
Registry last updated
Feb 28, 2012

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