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Family Focused Nursing for Elderly Medical Patients

NCT ID: NCT02408081

Last Updated: 2017-10-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

WITHDRAWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-04-30

Study Completion Date

2017-01-31

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Depression

Keywords

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Depression Family functioning Family Focused Nursing Quality of life

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Treatment as usual

Pharmacological treatment, patient information and counselling according to international and national guidelines by health professionals specialized in elderly medical patients.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Family Focused Nursing

Family Focused Nursing and treatment as usual

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Family Focused Nursing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Family Nursing Elderly

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* acute hospitalized
* an expected hospitalization of minimum two days
* speak and understand Danish
* signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* dementia (evaluated by the Mini Mental State Examination \[MMSE\] \< 24)
* terminally ill patients whose survival rate is assessed to be less than a month
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Southern Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Birte Oestergaard

Associate professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Penille W Perboell, MHSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Southern Denmark

Locations

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University Hospital Gentofte

Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

Other Identifiers

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UNR-H-6-2014-109-5

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id