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The Impact of the Family Room App on Caregivers

NCT06463158 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-02-23

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Summary

Engaging families in patient care during serious illness can enhance care quality, reduce social isolation, boost satisfaction, and lower healthcare costs. However, active involvement of family caregivers remains limited because there are no evidence-based tools to guide clinicians on how to include them effectively. This study will test and refine previously developed point-of-care application, Family Room, and determine its effectiveness by comparison with a control group. A series of surveys will be used to evaluate caregiver well-being, engagement and satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Well-Being, Psychological
  • Engagement
  • Satisfaction, Consumer

Interventions

DEVICE

Family Room Application

The Family Room application is a point of care tool that guides families on contributing to patient participant care by providing real time education, a sense of connection, emotional support, and resources that enable meaningful care giving. Importantly, family caregiver participants receive virtual training on comfort-focused care activities that can be done at the bedside, as well as a mechanism within the electronic health record (EHR) to measure and record the effectiveness of the care they provide.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Nebraska

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Breanna Hetland, PhD · University of Nebraska

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-01
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2027-02-28
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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