Virtual Home Visits for Stroke Patients and Their Caregivers

Summary

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual home care for stroke patients and their caregivers. The secondary purpose is to evaluate the usability of the application by developing a mobile application for use in virtual home visits.

The study will be carried out using the mixed research model, in which quantitative and qualitative methods are used together. The population of the research will consist of patients and caregivers with the diagnosis of hemorrhage, infarction, cerebrovascular accident and cerebral infarction, who applied to the Antalya Provincial Health Directorate Antalya Training and Research Hospital Home Health Unit, where the study is planned to be conducted. The sample of the study will consist of stroke patients and caregivers who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. The first phase of the study was designed as a parallel group, single center and single blind randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual home visits in terms of time, cost and caregiver competence. The experimental group was the patient/patient relative group who made a virtual home visit, the control group will consist of 48 patients/patient relatives who have been visited face-to-face. In the second phase of the study, semi-structured interview method will be used to determine the views of patients/patient relatives about virtual home visits. In order to evaluate the usability of the developed application, a usability survey will be applied to the group that has visited the virtual home.

With the results of this study, telemedicine applications in home care services will help to increase accessibility to home care services and reduce health care costs.considered to contribute. At the same time, it is expected that the results of the study will contribute to the scientific literature in the field of design and application of telemedicine services, which are developing and spreading

Conditions

• Stroke
• Caregiver
• Virtual
• Home Visit

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual Home Visit

The virtual home visit will be made through the mobile application developed by the researchers. First, the patients who meet the sampling criteria will be included in the study after the caregivers of the patients apply to the Antalya Health Directorate Antalya Training and Research Hospital Home Health Unit. The virtual home visit is scheduled twice

DEVICE

Control Group

"Face-to-face home visits will be carried out by the Antalya Education and Research Hospital home health team, as planned.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

90 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-08-01

Primary Completion

2024-12-01

Completion

2025-03-01

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations