- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT06283953
Boosting Resources for Tracheostomy Care at Home (BREATHE)
Boosting Resources and Caregiver Empowerment for Trach Care at Home: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial
The goal of this trial is to advance our understanding of how to best support caregivers of children with tracheostomies who are caring for their child at home. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- How can we support caregivers post-discharge with both medical and nonmedical decisions about resuming life, work, and family activities, while safely caring for their child with a tracheostomy at home?
- How can we leverage existing technology to facilitate communication between inpatient and outpatient care teams to better support needs of pediatric patients and caregivers post-discharge?
Caregiver participants will be randomly assigned to receive Trach Me Home (gold standard discharge program) or Trach Me Home with additional components. Caregiver participants will complete three surveys over the course of 6 months. Researchers will see if caregivers in the Trach Me Home with additional components report lower caregiver burden at 4 weeks post discharge (primary outcome) and fewer hospital readmissions at 6 months than those in Trach Me Home arm.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The study is focused on a rare and medically complex population of children with tracheostomies. The study is a Type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation study using a pragmatic randomized trial at six participating sites. The goal of this trial is to advance our understanding of how to best support caregivers of children with tracheostomies who are caring for their child at home. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:
- How can we support caregivers post-discharge with both medical and nonmedical decisions about resuming life, work, and family activities, while safely caring for their child with a tracheostomy at home?
- How can we leverage existing technology to facilitate communication between inpatient and outpatient care teams to better support needs of pediatric patients and caregivers post-discharge?
Caregiver participants will randomly assigned to the Comparator arm (gold standard discharge program) or to the Intervention arm (gold standard program with other components). Caregiver participants will complete three surveys over the course of 6 months. We will test two main hypotheses: the Intervention arm will have (1) significantly lower caregiver burden at 4 weeks post discharge (primary outcome) and (2) significantly lower readmissions or emergency room visits at 6 months post discharge than the Comparator arm.
We will also survey pediatricians of participating patients at 6 months post discharge and examine whether intervention arm pediatricians have higher satisfaction with discharge communication than those in comparator arm.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Karen Sepucha, PhD
- Phone Number: 617-724-3350
- Email: ksepucha@mgh.harvard.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Lauren Leavitt, MA
- Phone Number: 617-643-5320
- Email: ljleavitt@mgh.harvard.edu
Study Locations
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California
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La Jolla, California, United States, 92093
- University of San Diego Rady Children's Hospital
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Contact:
- Matthew Brigger, MD
- Email: mbrigger@rchsd.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Matthew Brigger, MD
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Maryland
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, 20910
- Children's National Medical Center, Children's Research Institute
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Contact:
- Habib Zalzal, MD
- Email: hzalzal@cnmc.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Habib Zalzal, MD
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
- Massachusetts General Hospital
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Contact:
- Karen Sepucha, PhD
- Email: ksepucha@mgh.harvard.edu
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Contact:
- Christopher Hartnick, MD
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Minnesota
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55404
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
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Contact:
- Asitha Jayawardena, MD
- Email: asitha.jayawardena@childrensmn.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Asitha Jayawardena, MD
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Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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Principal Investigator:
- Matthew Smith, MD
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Contact:
- Matthew Smith, MD
- Email: matthew.smith@cchmc.org
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19146
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Contact:
- Luv Javia, MD
- Email: javia@chop.edu
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Principal Investigator:
- Luv Javia, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Lead or primary adult caregiver (18 or older) of infants or children (0-17 years old) with tracheostomy who are planning for discharge to home, including children who are dependent on ventilator
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients transferred to other hospital or facility (and/or not discharged to home during study period)
- Primary caregiver unable to read or write in English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Arabic
- Not planning to reside in the U.S. for at least 12 months after discharge
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Active Comparator Caregivers
TrachMeHome program delivered in the hospital including education, skills training and case management for caregivers
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The Trach Me Home discharge program includes caregiver education, skills training and case management.
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Experimental: Intervention Caregivers
Trach Me Home and Trach@Home with additional education, outpatient care team communication and social support for caregivers.
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The Trach Me Home discharge program includes caregiver education, skills training and case management.
The Trach@Home program includes education, social support, and outreach to outpatient care team.
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Active Comparator: Active Comparator Physicians
Primary care physicians' of the enrolled participant's child receiving discharge communication
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The Trach Me Home discharge program includes caregiver education, skills training and case management.
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Experimental: Intervention Physicians
Primary care physicians' of the enrolled participant's child receiving outpatient care team communication prior to discharge
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The Trach Me Home discharge program includes caregiver education, skills training and case management.
The Trach@Home program includes education, social support, and outreach to outpatient care team.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Caregiver Burden
Time Frame: 4 weeks post-discharge
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Pediatric Tracheostomy Health Status Instrument (PTHSI) Caregiver burden subscale, higher scores indicate higher burden
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4 weeks post-discharge
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Medical Complications Associated with Tracheostomy
Time Frame: 6 months post-discharge
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Adapted version of Medical Complications Associated with Tracheostomy scale that includes 4 caregiver reported items assessing urgent medical visits, emergency room and readmissions for tracheostomy-related issues.
Higher scores are worse.
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6 months post-discharge
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6-month Readmission Rate
Time Frame: 6 months post-discharge
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Percentage with one or more electronic health record documented emergency room visits or hospital readmissions
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6 months post-discharge
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Frequency of pediatrician communication
Time Frame: 6 months post-discharge
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Percentage of clinicians that reported communication with inpatient team prior to and/or shortly after discharge
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6 months post-discharge
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Primary care pediatrician satisfaction
Time Frame: 6 months post-discharge
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Clinician reported satisfaction with discharge communication score, higher scores indicate higher satisfaction
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6 months post-discharge
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Medical Complications Associated with Tracheostomy
Time Frame: 4 weeks post-discharge
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Adapted version of Medical Complications Associated with Tracheostomy scale that includes 4 caregiver reported items assessing urgent medical visits, emergency room and readmissions for tracheostomy-related issues.
Higher scores are worse.
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4 weeks post-discharge
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Caregiver Burden
Time Frame: 6 months post-discharge
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Pediatric Tracheostomy Health Status Instrument (PTHSI) Caregiver burden subscale, higher scores indicate higher burden.
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6 months post-discharge
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Number of readmissions
Time Frame: 6 months post discharge
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The total number of electronic health record documented emergency room visits and hospital admissions will be collected, with higher numbers being worse (indicating more readmissions).
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6 months post discharge
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Karen Sepucha, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Principal Investigator: Christopher Hartnick, MD, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary / Massachusetts General Hospital
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Estimated)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 2023P001695
- IHS-2022C1-26100 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI))
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
To promote research replicability, transparency and future use of the data, de-identified data sets will be created and will be available, by request, to outside researchers.
The Data Package (comprised of the de-identified Analyzable Data Set, Full Protocol, metadata, data dictionary, full statistical analysis plan, and analytic code from the project) will be deposited in the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's Data Repository at the ICPSR. Participant information sheets for the study will indicate that de-identified information will be deposited in an open access service to promote use of the data by other researchers. No information that contains identifiers or that could be used to link an individual to the data will be included in the de-identified data set. No data will be provided from qualitative transcripts as this may lead to identifying information about participants. However, codes abstracted from qualitative transcripts may be made available.
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
- SAP
- ANALYTIC_CODE
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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