Effectiveness of a Transition Program to Empower Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease in the Transition to Adulthood: the STEPSTONES Project
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 189
- 试验地点
- 14
- 主要终点
- Level of empowerment
研究概览
简要总结
This study is part of a larger research project known as Swedish Transition Effects Project Supporting Teenagers with chrONic mEdical conditionS (STEPSTONES). This project was created to develop and evaluate transition programs in order to support adolescents with chronic conditions in Sweden. While STEPSTONES has a generic nature, the first transition program that will be evaluated targets adolescents with congenital heart disease (ConHD).
This particular study involves a hybrid experimental design, meaning a randomized controlled trial is embedded in a longitudinal, observational study. This type of design will help to test the effectiveness of a transition program in order to empower adolescents with congenital heart disease in the transition to adulthood and check for potential contamination of the comparison group. We will recruit 210 participants: 140 adolescents will be part of the randomized controlled trial (70 in the intervention arm; 70 in the comparison arm), and 70 participants will be assigned to the observational, longitudinal arm of the study, which serves as control group in an intervention-naive center. Over a period of two years, three assessments will be done during which all participants will be asked to answer a set of questionnaires.
The intervention to be tested involves patient empowerment, education on their ConHD, dealing with school, health behaviors required to maintain good health, guidance of parents, a person-centered transition plan, among others. The study hypothesis is that adolescents with ConHD who received a structured, person-centered transition program over a 2-year period have a higher patient empowerment score than adolescents who receive usual care.
详细描述
Congenital heart diseases (ConHD) represent 28% of all congenital abnormalities.This population has experienced an increased life expectancy due to improvements in medical services and surgical techniques. Currently, around 90% of them will reach adulthood. Due to the complexity of these disorders, children with ConHD have to be under continuing follow-up. However, when they reach 18 years, they will be transferred to adult care. In order to help the adolescent in the transitions to adulthood and adult care, transitions programs have been proposed as a complex intervention with the objective of maximizing lifelong functioning and potential through appropriate healthcare services.
Patient empowerment is recognized as an essential element of transition interventions.Through the promotion of patient empowerment the adolescents can become active partners in their care and have the knowledge and capacity to make decisions that affect their life and health status.
While the importance of transition programs has been mentioned previously, high level evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions is limited. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease. In order to asses the effectiveness of the transition program the investigators proposed a hybrid experimental design where a randomized controlled trial is embedded in a longitudinal, observational study.
During the course of the study, participants will be part of a transition program or receive usual care before being transferred to adult care. The primary outcome is level of empowerment and secondary outcomes include patient-reported health, illness perception, quality of life, health behaviors, knowledge on congenital heart disease, transition readiness, parental uncertainty and parenting.
The investigators will assess the effectiveness of the transition program by comparing the level of empowerment between the participants who received usual care and those who participated in the transition program. A higher level of empowerment from the group part of the intervention it's expected.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Swedish-speaking
- •Diagnosed with a congenital heart disease
- •Age: 16 years
排除标准
- •Syndromes affecting cognitive abilities
- •Acquired heart diseases
- •Heart transplantation
结局指标
主要结局
Level of empowerment
时间窗: Three measurements over a 2-year period.
Gothenburg Young Persons Empowerment Scale (GYPES) will be used to assess the level of empowerment. This scale was developed by the researchers involved in this study and has been tested in a previous cross sectional study in order to determine its psychometric properties in adolescents with congenital heart disease. The investigators will compare the level of empowerment between groups before and after the transfer of care. Empowerment level will be measured at three different points, when the participants are 16 (baseline), 17 (midterm) and 18 years old (after transfer).
次要结局
- Health behavior(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Patient reported health I(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Quality of life(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Patient reported health II(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Healthcare utilization(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Transition readiness(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)
- Knowledge(Three measurements over a 2-year period.)