NCT05750953

Nurse-assisted Intervention "eHealth@ Hospital -2-home"

Project Title: Nurse Assisted eHealth Service From Hospital to Home: Ameliorating Burden of Treatment Among Patients With Non-Communicable Diseases

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 204 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Stavanger · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial with non-communicable disease patients from two medical hospitals in Norway will be recruited prior to hospital discharge. The intervention group will participate in a 42-day nurse-assisted eHealth intervention "eHealth@ Hospital-2-Home". The intervention includes monitoring the patient's vital signs, self-reports of symptoms, health and well-being, communication between the patients and a Nurse Navigator in the hospital, and access to information about illness and health resources.

Detailed description

Heart failure (HF) and colon-rectal cancer (CRC) are two non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prone to a high rate of hospital admissions and re-admissions, and complex health care needs. For many patients with HF and CRC, self-management following hospitalization can be a challenge, and they may leave the hospital unprepared for self-managing their disease at home. The randomized controlled trial with NCD patients from two medical hospitals in Norway. Patients will be recruited before hospital discharge. The intervention group will participate in a 42-day nurse-assisted remote patient monitoring (RPM) intervention "eHealth@ Hospital-2-Home". The RPM intervention includes monitoring of patients' vital signs, self-reports of symptoms, health and well-being, communication between the patients and a Nurse Navigator in the hospital, and access to information about illness and health resources. The control group will receive care as usual. Data collection will take place before the intervention (baseline), at the end of the intervention (post-1), and 6 months after baseline (post-2). Data will be according to intention to treat principles. Qualitative data will be analyzed using thematic analysis.

Conditions

• Non Communicable Diseases
• Heart Failure
• Colon Rectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	eHealth@Hospital-2-Home	At hospital discharge, the intervention group will receive a wireless, portable personal computer system (i.e., IPAD) that includes the eHealth application MyDignio supplied by a certified m-Health company. MyDignio app is linked to monitoring devices by Bluetooth for each patient to daily and weekly measure clinical measures such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and weight, and self-reported symptoms and well-being, and daily report clinical measurements to the Nurse Navigators employed in the two hospitals. The patients will receive training from the nurses on how to log on and use the MyDignio app and the monitoring devices. Telephone contact details including information about how to access technical support will be provided to each study participant shortly following discharge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-05
• Primary completion: 2025-12-15
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2023-03-02
• Last updated: 2025-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway