Family Health Partners in Regional Network Structures
NEST
Strengthening and Relieving the Burden on Families With Children in Need of Care Through Family Health Partners [Familien-Gesundheits-Partner; FGP] in Regional Network Structures
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
Families with children with severe health problems are exposed to particular emotional, social, economic and time burdens. These result in further risks, which often lead to poor living and care situations for the families concerned. This is attributed, among other, to legal regulations that do not do justice to the respective individual life situations and the lack of competent information and counselling services. The overarching objective of the NEST project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a professional support facility for families with children in need of care that operates across sectors and service providers. The network support by so-called Family Health Partners \[Familien-Gesundheits-Partner; FGP\] aims to provide assistance and need-based individual care for all members in families with children in need of care. The medium-term goal of FGP support is to develop the family as a self-help system, i.e. as a self-competent, independently acting primary resource for the care and support of their children in need of care.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Jan 2022
Typical duration for not_applicable
2 active sites
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Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
January 1, 2022
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
March 1, 2022
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 14, 2022
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
April 30, 2024
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
September 30, 2024
CompletedMay 13, 2024
May 1, 2024
2.3 years
March 1, 2022
May 10, 2024
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (9)
Family quality of life
Name of the measurement and measurement tools can be seen below (outcome measures 2-9). Unit of measure are both measures of central tendency and measures of variability.
18 months
Parents' mental and physical health
General Health Questionnaire-28 - GHQ-28
18 months
Well-being
WHO-Five Well-being Index - WHO-5
18 months
Stress experience
Perceived Stress Scale - PSS-4
18 months
Family burden due to illness of the child
Impact-on-Family Scale - IOFS-20
18 months
Family cohesion
Resilience Scale for Adults - RSA
18 months
Resilience
Brief Resilience Scale - BRS
18 months
Individual stressor exposure
Mainz Inventory of Microstressors - MIMIS
18 months
Life events
Life History Calendar - LHC
18 months
Secondary Outcomes (9)
Resilience factors and associated measures
18 months
Optimism / positive thinking
18 months
Locus of control
18 months
Self-efficacy
18 months
Social support
18 months
- +4 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (2)
Intervention Group (IG)
EXPERIMENTALFamilies with FGP support (families with disabled and/or chronically children under 18 in the greater area of Mainz, Saarbrucken and Munich (Germany)
Control Group (CG)
NO INTERVENTIONFamilies without FGP support (standard care) under the same conditions
Interventions
Non-randomized controlled trial with four points of measurement ( in 18 months)
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- parents and other guardians with at least one disabled and/or chronically ill child under 18 years in western and southern Germany
- all genders and ethnicities will be included in the study
You may not qualify if:
- caregivers for children in need of care according to § 37 of Germany's Social Security Code V level of care = 1 (i.e. minor impairments of independence or abilities)
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorflead
- Federal Joint Committeecollaborator
- aQua-Institut GmbH, Germanycollaborator
- Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung, Germanycollaborator
- nestwärme gGmbH, Germanycollaborator
- Kindernetzwerk e.V., Germanycollaborator
- ism gGmbH, Germanycollaborator
Study Sites (2)
Kindernetzwerk e.V.
Mainaschaff, D-63814, Germany
Nestwärme gGmbH
Trier, D-54290, Germany
Related Publications (2)
Broll J, Schafer SK, Ludecke D, Nickel S, Lieb K, Helmreich I. Effects of micro- and macro-stressors and resilience factors on the mental health of parents caring for chronically ill and disabled children and adolescents. BMC Nurs. 2025 May 2;24(1):489. doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03125-6.
PMID: 40316988DERIVEDNickel S, Helmreich I, Broll J, Ludecke D. Family health partners in regional network structures (NEST): A non-randomized controlled trial among parents of chronically ill and disabled children. PLoS One. 2023 Jul 17;18(7):e0288435. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288435. eCollection 2023.
PMID: 37459306DERIVED
Related Links
Study Officials
- STUDY DIRECTOR
Gerald Willms, PhD
aQua-Institut GmbH, Germany
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
March 1, 2022
First Posted
June 14, 2022
Study Start
January 1, 2022
Primary Completion
April 30, 2024
Study Completion
September 30, 2024
Last Updated
May 13, 2024
Record last verified: 2024-05
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share