Developing and Piloting a Multi-component Technology-based Care Intervention to Address Patient Symptoms and Caregiver Burden in Home Hospice. Phase 1.

Weill Medical College of Cornell University12 enrolled

Overview

With the growth of hospice, older adults have the opportunity to receive home-based care aimed at reducing suffering and focusing on quality of life at the end of life. While use of technology and educational videos has yet to be fully developed, structured, and evaluated in home hospice care, it has shown promise to improve care in other settings. Therefore, this study aims to develop and evaluate a multi-component technology-based care intervention, i.e., Improving Home hospice Management of End of life issues through technology (I-HoME), that focuses on assessing and addressing patient symptoms and caregiver burden in the home hospice setting through synchronous live video visits and educational videos. The aim of the first phase of the project is to employ an iterative user-centered design process to develop I-HoME for home hospice patients and their caregivers prior to implementation.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Home Hospice

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 110 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Home hospice providers (N=10) and family caregivers (N=10) must be English speaking, 18 years of age or older, not blind, and either providing or receiving home hospice care. Home hospice patients (N=10) must be English speaking, 65 years of age or older, not blind, and enrolled in home hospice care. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with a terminal diagnosis of dementia or patients who have cognitive impairment and unable to sign a written informed consent will be excluded.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Participants' experience using the intervention as measured by the I-HoME User-centered design questionnaire

A questionnaire consisting of open ended questions asking participants to provide feedback and their thoughts about the I-HoME intervention. The responses gathered are not scored, but qualitative analysis will be performed to identify issues that will be used to make revisions to the I-HoME intervention before starting phase 2 of the project.

Time frame: 1 day