NCT02408081

Family Focused Nursing for Elderly Medical Patients

Family-Focused Nursing for Elderly Medical Patients and Their Family: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Focused Nursing	All patients receive treatment as usual. Additionally, patients in the intervention arm receives family focused nursing consultations which are structured as sessions focusing on change, improvement and/or maintenance of family function within cognitive, affective and behavioral knowledge. Each session is organized and individualized according to the wishes and needs for education and counseling of the families within a period of one months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2015-04-03
• Last updated: 2017-10-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark