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Interprofessional Education Programme for Nursing and Physiotherapy Students Providing Home-Based Care to Older Adults

NCT07184333 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2025-09-19

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Summary

The goal of this mixed-methods research is to investigate the impact of interprofessional education on the professional development and clinical skills of nursing and physiotherapy students who provide home-based care to older adults in Hong Kong. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Is an interprofessional home-based digital frailty management program feasible for training nursing and physiotherapy students ?
2. Can the training enhance students' skills in providing holistic, home-based care, interprofessional teamwork and communication?
3. Can the training improve elderly health awareness, behavior, and outcomes?

The study will involve 50 students from Hong Kong Metropolitan University, including nursing and physiotherapy students in clinical placement courses. Approximately 100 older adults with mild health conditions, living in home-based community settings, will take part as care recipients.

Students will:

1. Attend a training programme delivered by healthcare professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists, and social workers.
2. Carry out supervised home visits in pairs, working directly with older adults to assess their needs, provide health education, and support healthy lifestyle changes.
3. Use a tablet-based digital platform to record care plans, share information, and follow up with participants.

Conditions

  • Frailty at Older Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interprofessional Education with Digital Case Management for Home-Based Elder Care

A structured interprofessional education programme for nursing and physiotherapy students that includes: (1) a 3-hour workshop on frailty assessment, digital case documentation, and care planning; (2) a 30-minute orientation on home visit safety and communication; (3) supervised home visits to older adult participants involving health and fitness assessments, medication support, and health education; (4) use of a tablet-based digital case management platform for collaborative care documentation; and (5) a 4-week follow-up with personalised mobile health messages and a final home visit. The intervention aims to enhance students' clinical, collaborative, and digital competencies in community-based elder care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hong Kong Metropolitan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Agnes YK Lai, PhD · Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-01
Primary Completion
2026-05-31
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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