Life-dependent Home Mechanical Ventilation

Experiences and Challenges in Life-dependent Home Mechanical Ventilation - a Part of the Air For Life Project

In Denmark, life-dependent home-mechanical ventilation (HMV) is given under the surveillance of a specifically trained respiratory patient caregiver (tPCG). The HMV can be invasive through a tracheostomy or non-invasive via a mask.

The purpose of this study is to uncover experiences and challenges associated with having a trained respiratory patient care giver (tPCG) to surveil home-mechanical ventilation (HMV) from the perspective of the patients and their families and to gather information about the expirence of working in a home as a tPCG

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Ventilator Lung

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 126

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Denmark
  • Glostrup Municipality, Denmark, 2600
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Pain and REspiratory Support

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

All patients assigned with a trained patient care giver to surveil the respiratory treatment (invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation) and working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East, their relatives as well as trained respiratory patient caregivers working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Patient Age > 18 years Has trained patient care givers to surveil the respiratory treatment and working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East

Parent Age > 18 years Has a child less than 18 years old with tPCG, working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East, to surveil the home-mechanical ventilation

Other relative:

Age > 18 years Involved in the treatment or support of a relative with tPCG, working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East, to surveil the home-mechanical ventilation

Trained patient caregivers (tPCG) Age > 18 years Employed by an external agency or by the patient (BPA) to surveil home-mechanical ventilation Certified as tPCG working on the responsibility of the Respiratory Center East

Exclusion Criteria:

• No informed consent to participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Patients
Relatives
Trained respiratory patient caregiver

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Severe respiratory insufficiency questionnaire	The patients will be asked to fullfill the questionnaire	Assessed within the last 7 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 18, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 6, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 21, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): November 30, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 11, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 6, 2026
• Last Verified: May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: J-23039527

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No