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Technological Home Care: Improving HPN Care With Videophone And Internet Education

NCT00315094 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 172

Last updated 2012-02-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to help people with home parenteral nutrition (HPN) to avoid infections and feelings of depression or fatigue and to test how their health and quality of life change over time. Another purpose is to test the nurse teaching sessions and the method of obtaining support from the peer partner through videophone.

Conditions

  • Home Parenteral Nutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Caregiving support interventions (FamTechCare)

One set of combined interventions to be tested in this study are nursing interventions for the prevention of catheter-related infection, reactive depression, and HPN home care problem-solving. The other set of combined interventions are for increasing social support and use of a short nap to reduce daily fatigue. Information about all the interventions were incorporated into Internet formats as a booster for reinforcement.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Kansas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carol E Smith, PhD, RN · University of Kansas Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2011-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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