Technological Home Care: Improving HPN Care With Videophone And Internet Education

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

172

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2006

Primary Completion Date

July 31, 2010

Study Completion Date

November 30, 2011

Conditions
Home Parenteral Nutrition
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Caregiving support interventions (FamTechCare)

One set of combined interventions to be tested in this study are nursing interventions for the prevention of catheter-related infection, reactive depression, and HPN home care problem-solving. The other set of combined interventions are for increasing social support and use of a short nap to reduce daily fatigue. Information about all the interventions were incorporated into Internet formats as a booster for reinforcement.

Trial Locations (1)

66160

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

lead

University of Kansas

OTHER

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