The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Virtual Home Visits for Stroke Patients and Their Caregivers as Part of Home Health Services.

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual home care for stroke patients and their caregivers. The secondary purpose is to evaluate the usability of the application by developing a mobile application for use in virtual home visits. The study will be carried out using the mixed research model, in which quantitative and qualitative methods are used together. The population of the research will consist of patients and caregivers with the diagnosis of hemorrhage, infarction, cerebrovascular accident and cerebral infarction, who applied to the Antalya Provincial Health Directorate Antalya Training and Research Hospital Home Health Unit, where the study is planned to be conducted. The sample of the study will consist of stroke patients and caregivers who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. The first phase of the study was designed as a parallel group, single center and single blind randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual home visits in terms of time, cost and caregiver competence. The experimental group was the patient/patient relative group who made a virtual home visit, the control group will consist of 48 patients/patient relatives who have been visited face-to-face. In the second phase of the study, semi-structured interview method will be used to determine the views of patients/patient relatives about virtual home visits. In order to evaluate the usability of the developed application, a usability survey will be applied to the group that has visited the virtual home. With the results of this study, telemedicine applications in home care services will help to increase accessibility to home care services and reduce health care costs.considered to contribute. At the same time, it is expected that the results of the study will contribute to the scientific literature in the field of design and application of telemedicine services, which are developing and spreading

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 90
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• Being willing to participate in the study,

• Hospitalization with the diagnosis of (stroke, hemorrhage, infarction, cerebrovascular accident and cerebral infarction),

• Districts of Antalya Training and Research Hospital

• The patient's \* Barthel Activities of Daily Living Index dependency level is complete, severe, moderate, and mildly dependent.

• For pressure ulcer risk \*\*Braden Risk Assessment Tool

• For caregivers;

• Having internet access Being primarily responsible for the care of the patient (who performs the daily activities of the patient during the intervention),

• The caregiver has internet access,

• At least one person in the house where the patient lives is using the internet,

• In the case of more than one caregiver, the most willing caregiver,

Locations
Other Locations
Turkey
Yasemin Demi̇r Avci̇
RECRUITING
Antalya
Contact Information
Primary
Yasemin Demir Avcı, PHD
yasemin0747@hotmail.com
024224400 (2969)
Backup
Neşe Zayim, PHD
nesezayim@gmail.com
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-08-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-03-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 96
Treatments
Experimental: Virtual home visit
to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual home visits in terms of time, cost and caregiver competence
Active_comparator: Home visit
to evaluate the effectiveness of home visits in terms of time, cost and caregiver competence
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov