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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
76 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-11-01
2022-12-31
Brief Summary
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It will created two groups of volunteers, one group will follow the CUDECA standard training program, the other will follow the proposed intervention, ITV-Pal programme. Volunteers will be allocated randomly to each group. Second stage will consist in the implementation of the direct support to patients and families through the volunteers.
The expectation is that ITV-Pal volunteers trained will be able to increase general welfare of patients and families they care for. To test it, the quality of life of patients, families and volunteers, the quality of the dying process, and identify how new technology supports volunteer end of life care will be measure.
Detailed Description
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Although volunteers contribute millions of hours of work, the review of bibliography found no sufficiently robust studies to merit inclusion, and even less when associating PC volunteering and NT. As more research is needed on the impact of training and support for palliative care volunteers, this study intends to study the state of art of technophilia and technophobia among patients, relatives, volunteers and healthcare professionals in PC, and according to the results, implement and evaluate a volunteer training programme in the use of new technology to support patients dying at home and their relatives.
The best approach to evaluate the implementation process of complex intervention is the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Basic quantitative measures of implementation may be combined with in-depth qualitative data to provide detailed understandings of intervention functioning on a small scale. Use quantitative methods to measure key process variables and allow testing of pre-hypothesised mechanisms of impact and contextual moderators. Use qualitative methods to capture emerging changes in implementation, experiences of the intervention and unanticipated or complex causal pathways, and to generate new theory.
Quantitative approach:
* Pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial to test the efficacy (the unit of randomization is the volunteer and the unit of analysis is the patient/relative).
* Before-after design for satisfaction of volunteers and HPC with the intervention and its implementation to test the effectiveness.
* Cost-utility study from the perspective of the funder with a time horizon of one year. A detailed cost analysis including costs for the adaptation of volunteer standard course to ITVPal Programme as well as the recruitment and training costs of the volunteers will be performed.
Qualitative approach: interviews (individuals and groupal) with HPC, volunteers and with key informants of patients/relatives to test at the beginning the need and usefulness of NT, and also during the implementation process to test changes and experiences.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Tech-volunteer
A complex intervention with two phases is proposed.
* First phase: volunteers new technologies training (tech-volunteering). Volunteers will be trained in the use of NT and their interconnectivity as tools to support their volunteer work. This training will be integrated into the PC volunteer training programme.
* Second phase: using the NT with patients and relatives.
ITV-Pal
Use of new technologies for volunteering
Usual volunteer
the control group will receive standard volunteer service.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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ITV-Pal
Use of new technologies for volunteering
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Over 18 years; PC patients and relatives eligible for volunteer support according to the PC team assessment.
* Acceptance to participate in the study by signing the Informed Consent.
PC Volunteers:
\- Acceptance to participate in the study by signing the Informed Consent.
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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La Caixa Foundation
OTHER
Cudeca Hospice Foundation
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Locations
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Fundación CUDECA
Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Pilar Barnestein-Fonseca, PhD
Role: primary
References
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Barnestein-Fonseca P, Vibora-Martin E, Ruiz-Torreras I, Chapinal-Bascon H, Martin-Rosello ML, Gomez-Garcia R. ITV-Pal programme: protocol of evaluation of the implementation of tech-volunteer programme in palliative care services. BMJ Open. 2023 Aug 24;13(8):e065222. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065222.
Other Identifiers
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SR20-00841
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id