Individualised Informal Caregiver Training for Palliative Care at Home

NCT02591693 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: REC number 14/SC/1104
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 14
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a training intervention to improve caregiver confidence for family caregivers of patients with palliative care needs at home, is acceptable to patients and their caregivers.

Conditions

Palliative Care

Keywords

Family Caregivers; Occupational Therapy; Activities of Daily Living

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Recruitment, retention, attrition, missing data rates

  To evaluate feasibility of study

  6 weeks post recruitment

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Preparedness for caregiving scale

  Baseline and 4-6 weeks

• Caregiver Burden Scale at End of Life

  Baseline and 4-6 weeks

• Modified Caregiver Strain Index

  Baseline and 4-6 weeks

• Carer Confidence Scale

  Baseline and 4-6 weeks

Other Outcomes (8)

• Health care utilisation

  4-6 weeks

• Acceptability

  4-6 weeks

• Age

  Baseline

Study Arms (2)

Caregiver Training

EXPERIMENTAL

Three home visits by a specialist occupational therapist, each lasting 1-2 hours. Assessment and training to confidently achieve up to three goals relating to practical activities of daily living identified by patient and caregiver. On-going usual care from multi-professional team at hospice.

Behavioral: Caregiver training

Usual Care

NO INTERVENTION

On-going usual care from multi-professional team at hospice.

Interventions

Caregiver training BEHAVIORAL

Occupational therapy training focuses on improving confidence to manage practical aspects of care in areas of daily life important to patient and caregiver, in which caregiver reports or anticipates low levels of confidence.

Caregiver Training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patient currently at home, reliant on family/friends (lay carers) some or all of the time to help with practical or personal care.
• The carer is aged 18 years or over.
• The carer and the patient have the capacity to consent to being involved in the study.

You may not qualify if:

• There is a current plan in place for all care to be provided by paid carers full time.
• The patient currently receiving more than one contact with Hospice Specialist Occupational Therapy or is likely to develop needs requiring more than one contact Hospice Occupational Therapy over the four week study intervention period.
• Patients and carers who are not able to speak or understand adequate English for consent to be obtained, to be able to undertake carer training and to complete the study outcome measures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oxford: lead
• Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust: collaborator
• Oxford Brookes University: collaborator
• University of Southampton: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice

Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX37LE, United Kingdom

Location

Study Officials

• Bee Wee, MB BCh PhD

  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Oxford

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 29, 2015
• First Posted: October 29, 2015
• Study Start: August 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2016
• Study Completion: April 1, 2016
• Last Updated: June 3, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-06

Locations

GB (1)