Family-Focused Nursing for Elderly Medical Patients and Their Family: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in depressive symptoms assessed by 9 points measured on the Geriatric Depression Scale
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Family Focused Nursing are effective in the treatment of elderly medical patients with respect to prevalence of depression
详细描述
Psychosocial issues such as lack of social support and symptoms of depression, are risk factors associated to readmission for elderly medical patients. Families with elderly members in general want to be involved in the caring and want to maintain a close relation to their elderly family member. However, disease in a single family can have a negative effect on all members and may result in dysfunction of the family. International guidelines recommend that the patient's relatives are involved in patient education as well as the treatment. Family interventions might contribute to decline depression and readmissions, besides enhanced quality of life and family function among elderly medical patients and their next of kin.
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
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •acute hospitalized
- •an expected hospitalization of minimum two days
- •speak and understand Danish
- •signed informed consent
排除标准
- •dementia (evaluated by the Mini Mental State Examination [MMSE] < 24)
- •terminally ill patients whose survival rate is assessed to be less than a month
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment as usual
Pharmacological treatment, patient information and counselling according to international and national guidelines by health professionals specialized in elderly medical patients.
Family Focused Nursing
Family Focused Nursing and treatment as usual
干预措施: Family Focused Nursing (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in depressive symptoms assessed by 9 points measured on the Geriatric Depression Scale
时间窗: Baseline, 7 days and 6 months after the intervention
The effect of intervention on primary outcome are investigated as longitudinal data at seven days and six month. The data are analysed using mixed models
次要结局
- Change in family function score on Brief Family Assessment Measure III(7 days and 6 months)
- Change in health related quality of life on Medical Outcomes Study Short Form, SF-8(7 days and 6 months)
- Change in time spent between hospitalization(7 days and 6 months)
研究者
Birte Oestergaard
Associate professor
University of Southern Denmark