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Supporting Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients at Home: the Carer Support Needs Assessment Intervention

NCT02261935 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2018-03-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In this project the investigators will train home care nurses to use the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) with a group of family caregivers (intervention group) and then compare the family caregivers' quality of life, burden and other outcomes to a group of family caregivers whose home care nurse is not using the CSNAT (control group). Findings will allow us to determine the effectiveness of using the CSNAT as a tool to identify, monitor and address family caregiver support needs in palliative home care.

Conditions

  • Family Caregiving for a Palliative Patient

Interventions

OTHER

Existing home care nursing practice

Home care nurses in this comparator group will provide "care as per usual" to their patients and family caregivers. The family is seen as the unit of care but no formal assessment of the caregiver will be done.

OTHER

Practice support tool intervention

The intervention will be the routine use of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) in the practice of home care nurses (once every 4 weeks with each family caregiver) to document, monitor and address family caregiver support needs. The completed CSNAT tool will be kept in the patient chart and will be integrated into the care provided by the nurse. Update - December 22, 2016 - In some offices only, the CSNAT will be administered by a separate study nurse. Findings will be communicated to the home care nurse to inform the documenting, monitoring and addressing of family caregiver support needs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Frailty Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kelli Stajduhar

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kelli I Stajduhar, PhD · University of Victoria

  • Richard G Sawatzky, PhD · Trinity Western University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-12-20
Completion
2017-12-20

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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