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Nursing Home Care Intervention Post Stroke

NCT02807012 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 82

Last updated 2019-08-12

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Summary

Associated with the worsening of functional capacity of older adult and the lack of guidance on how to care of them after stroke, the family caregiver starts to fell burden related to the care, and the quality of life was affected by that burden. Besides that, the older adult began to use more frequently health services and had more hospitalizations by preventable conditionals with adequate care.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of educational interventions of care at home provide by nurses to family caregivers of older adult with stroke after hospital discharge, compared with usual care guidelines or no guidance, in one month follow up. The family caregivers of older adults post stroke with the first functional sequel from the Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre (HCPA) will participate in the study.

The intervention will involve the systematic monitoring of nurses through home visits (HVs) during one month. Thus, will instrumentalize the family caregiver to care of older adult with stoke according the protocol developed in a research group and the needs of care of them. The control group won't receive the home visits and could have or not the usual care guidelines provide by health services that have access.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Nursing educational intervention

The nursing educational intervention by home visits will consist in three home visits by nurses until 14, 21 and 30 days after discharge to the intervention group. The nurses will give verbal information to family caregiver related to the care of elderly with stroke based on protocol with orientation related: information about stroke; emotional support; how to access health services; nutrition; airway; hygiene; positioning and transferring; prevent falls; dress/undress; medications; physiological eliminations; skin care. Furthermore, nurses will give some printed materials that contain orientations related to the care. The control group could have ou not the usual care guidelines provide by health services that have access.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lisiane MG Paskulin, PhD · Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2020-07-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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