NCT05542472

The Effect on Caregivers of a Family Support Program

The Effect on Caregivers of a Family Support Program Based on a Nurse-Led Case Management Model

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sakarya University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a family support program based on the nurse-led case management model on individuals providing care for patients who are confined to bed at home.

Detailed description

It is of paramount importance to enable the patients receiving home care and their relatives to adapt social life, to fulfil their social integration, to relieve the burden of family members of the individual in need of care, especially the individual providing care, by supporting them in the environment where they live. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of the family support program based on the nurse-led case management model for family members who care for bedridden patients.The family support program based on a five-stage nurse-led case management model is administered for the caregivers in the intervention group, the caregivers in the control group is monitored by home health services through routine follow-ups. The research will conducted as a randomized controlled study with an experimental design.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Family Support Program Based on a Nurse-Led Case Management Model	A Family Support Program Based on the Nurse-Led Case Management Model create for the care givers in the intervention group. Case management is the process of planning an individual's care, coordinating it, managing it, implementing it and reviewing it. The aim in case management is to improve a person's quality of life by coordinating health care services and providing these services at a reasonable cost and in a productive way. The use of case management requires the cooperation of professionals from many different disciplines. Therefore, in areas where case management is applied, the case manager coordinates an individual's or patient's care by enabling this cooperation. In this way, in areas where health services are provided, the case manager may be a doctor, a nurse, a physiotherapist, a social services expert, or a speech therapist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-11
• Primary completion: 2020-11-30
• Completion: 2021-08-02
• First posted: 2022-09-15
• Last updated: 2022-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)