The Effects and Meaning of a Person-centred and Health-promoting Intervention in Home Care Services

NCT ID: NCT02846246

Last Updated: 2024-01-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

81 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-09-30

Study Completion Date

2018-06-30

Brief Summary

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Current home care service are to a large extent task oriented with a limited focus on care recipient's involvement. Furthermore, studies have shown that low care recipients' involvement might decrease older people's quality of life. Person-centred care focusing on involvement has improved the quality of life and the satisfaction with care for older people in health care and nursing homes but there is a lack of knowledge about the effects and meaning of a person-centred interventions in aged care at home. Present study describes the evaluation of a person-centred and health-promoting intervention.

Detailed Description

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This is a non-randomised controlled trial with a before-after approach. The investigators will include 270 home care recipients \>65 years, 270 family members and 65 staff in intervention group and control group respectively. Participants will be recruited from a municipality in northern Sweden. The intervention involves letting the person and family together with contact nurse prioritise care content and make rearrangements to make sure the home care service maximises the potential to satisfy psychosocial, physical, and functional needs and increasing health. Outcome assessment will focus on; a) quality of life (primary outcomes), thriving and satisfaction with care for older people, b) caregiver strain, informal caregiving engagement and satisfaction with care for relatives, c) job satisfaction and stress for care staff. Evaluation will be performed by questionnaires and interviews.

Person-centred home care services have the potential to improve the recurrently reported sub-standard experiences of home care services and the study result will hopefully lead the way in establish a person-centred and health-promoting model in aged care and living conditions for older people.

Conditions

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Staff and Older Persons With Home Care Service

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

The experimental group will be introduced to a person-centred care model that involves shared decision making where the person with home care service and family together with contact nurse prioritise care content and make rearrangements to make sure the provided home care service maximises health.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Person-centred and health-promoting home care service

Intervention Type OTHER

Firstly, staff will take part in an educational program on the content and operationalization of the central theoretical components person-centeredness and health exploratory conversation. Secondly, staff will participate in supervised skill training in how to accomplish person-centered and health exploratory conversation. Thirdly, the staff will have a person-centred and health exploratory conversation with purpose to evaluate the extent to which current home care service practice meet the older person´s need and maintain or make rearrangement in provided care to maximise older people's health. Finally, staff will participate in clinical supervisory sessions with an aim to support and facilitate ongoing operationalization phase.

Control

A usual care paradigm will guide the control units, i.e. a continuation with practice as usual.

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Care as usual

Intervention Type OTHER

The control group will be offered a lecture about dementia based on staff wishes and a usual care paradigm will guide the control units, i.e. a continuation with practice as usual. Control units will receive the intervention protocol and study results at the end of the study.

Interventions

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Person-centred and health-promoting home care service

Firstly, staff will take part in an educational program on the content and operationalization of the central theoretical components person-centeredness and health exploratory conversation. Secondly, staff will participate in supervised skill training in how to accomplish person-centered and health exploratory conversation. Thirdly, the staff will have a person-centred and health exploratory conversation with purpose to evaluate the extent to which current home care service practice meet the older person´s need and maintain or make rearrangement in provided care to maximise older people's health. Finally, staff will participate in clinical supervisory sessions with an aim to support and facilitate ongoing operationalization phase.

Intervention Type OTHER

Care as usual

The control group will be offered a lecture about dementia based on staff wishes and a usual care paradigm will guide the control units, i.e. a continuation with practice as usual. Control units will receive the intervention protocol and study results at the end of the study.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* persons 65 years or older
* living at home with granted HCS
* have at least two visits per month, and
* be Swedish speaking

Inclusion for family members:

* be defined by the care recipients as his/her family member, and
* Swedish speaking

Inclusion for staff:

* have an employment for more than 6 month in the HCS district at baseline, be a contact staff and
* Swedish speaking
* Care recipients who apply for HCS in the district during the study period will be offered the intervention but not be included in the evaluation
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Umeå University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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David Edvardsson

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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David Edvardsson, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Umea University

References

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Lamas K, Bolenius K, Sandman PO, Lindkvist M, Edvardsson D. Effects of a person-centred and health-promoting intervention in home care services- a non-randomized controlled trial. BMC Geriatr. 2021 Dec 18;21(1):720. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02661-5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 34922494 (View on PubMed)

Bolenius K, Lamas K, Sandman PO, Lindkvist M, Edvardsson D. Perceptions of self-determination and quality of life among Swedish home care recipients - a cross-sectional study. BMC Geriatr. 2019 May 24;19(1):142. doi: 10.1186/s12877-019-1145-8.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31126243 (View on PubMed)

Bolenius K, Lamas K, Sandman PO, Edvardsson D. Effects and meanings of a person-centred and health-promoting intervention in home care services - a study protocol of a non-randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatr. 2017 Feb 16;17(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12877-017-0445-0.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 28209122 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2016/04-31Ö

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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