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The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Care

15. januar 2021 opdateret af: Debra Parker Oliver, Washington University School of Medicine
The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Caregiver Pain Management The major goal of this project is to implement and test this promising intervention in three hospice programs. The mixed methods evaluation of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) will provide evidence-based data for a tested intervention manual that hospice staff members can use to integrate the intervention into their practices.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Caregiver Pain Management The major goal of this project is to implement and test this promising intervention in three hospice programs. The mixed methods evaluation of this RCT will provide evidence-based data for a tested intervention manual that hospice staff members can use to integrate the intervention into their practices. We will rigorously test the effectiveness of the ACTIVE intervention. We will investigate whether the assessment of the informal caregivers perception of pain management will identify those who will benefit most and whether changes in the perceptions of informal caregivers will result in improvement of patient pain. We will explore barriers and challenges in the implementation of this into every day practice within hospice

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

446

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

    • Missouri
      • Columbia, Missouri, Forenede Stater, 65203
        • Hospice Compassus
      • Saint Joseph, Missouri, Forenede Stater, 65203
        • Hands of Hope Hospice

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

  • Barn
  • Voksen
  • Ældre voksen

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ja

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Kvinde

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria: Informal Caregiver Inclusion Criteria

  1. Informal caregiver of an enrolled hospice patient
  2. Age 18 or over and legally able to provide informed consent
  3. Involved in decisions related to pain medications
  4. Access to at least one of the below:

    1. A standard land line telephone
    2. A high-speed Internet connection with operational computer
  5. Without functional hearing loss or with a hearing aid that allows the participant to conduct phone or Internet conversations as assessed by the research staff (by questioning and observation

    -

    Exclusion Criteria:Informal caregivers of hospice patients with a life expectancy less than 14 days as assessed by the hospice nurse with the palliative performance scale (PPS) (99)

    -

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Støttende pleje
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Ingen indgriben: Usual Care
Usual hospice care- there is no intervention in this arm
Eksperimentel: ACTIVE
Behavioral intervention using web conferencing
Assessing Caregivers for Team Intervention via Video Encounters: this intervention uses video technology to bridge geographic distance to empower hospice caregivers to participate in plan of care meetings for their patient

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Caregiver Perceptions of Pain Medicine Questionaire
Tidsramme: Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure
This 16 question instrument measures the perceptions hospice caregivers have toward the administration of pain medications. Scores on items vary from 1-5 with the lower scores indicating more problematic perceptions of pain management. A Total score is computed between 16-80 Only the last available measure will be used to reflect the measure closest to time of death.
Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Caregiver Quality of Life-Revised Subscale Emotional
Tidsramme: Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure
This is one domain of a four domain instrument. It involves one question with a range of 0-10.Only the last available measure will be used to reflect the measure closest to time of death.
Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure
Anxiety
Tidsramme: Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure
This measure determines the level of anxiety experienced by a hospice caregiver. Total scores range from 0-21 with higher scores representing more anxiety. Only the last available measure will be used to reflect the measure closest to time of death.
Every 14 days until the death of the patient for an average of 45 days-Only measure used in analysis is the last completed measure

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

Det er her, du vil finde personer og organisationer, der er involveret i denne undersøgelse.

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Generelle publikationer

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. september 2010

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. april 2014

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. juli 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

23. september 2010

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

28. september 2010

Først opslået (Skøn)

29. september 2010

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

4. februar 2021

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

15. januar 2021

Sidst verificeret

1. april 2017

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 1160518

Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)

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