A Body Assessment Tool was developed to provide nurses with a more structured approach when choosing ostomy products. The Body Assessment Tool will to be evaluated in clinical settings.
The primary objective is to evaluate the usability of the Body Assessment Tool for the nurse. The secondary objectives are to explore if the use of Body Assessment Tool has an impact on the leakage associated Quality of Life and leakage incidences for individuals living with ostomies. Forty to fifty ostomates will be enrolled from each Nordic country (i.e. Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland). The users will be recruited from 5-10 clinics in each country. The evaluation will include 1 visit at the clinic and at least 1 phone call visit to the user (end-of study phone visit). The usability of the Body Assessment Tool will be evaluated by the nurses. The user's leakage and QoL will be evaluated by the end-users.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
121
Assessment tool to evaluate stoma to find proper ostomy products
The stoma care nurses evaluated the clinical usability of the Body Assessment Tool, which included answering the following questions: Does the tool offer value in clinical practice? Does it provide a good starting point when choosing ostomy product(s)? Does it help raise the quality of care? Participants provided their responses on a 6 point-scale (1-6), where 1 indicated the lowest satisfaction and 6 the greatest satisfaction with the tool.
Coloplast Denmark A/s
Humlebæk, Denmark
Evaluate Body Assessment Tool Based on the Nurse Evaluation Form
Clinical usability evaluation of the Body Assessment Tool was based on a 6-point scale (1 being lowest satisfaction - 6 being highest satisfaction) in response to the three questions: "Does the tool offer value in clinical practice?", "Does it provide a good starting point when choosing ostomy product(s)?", and "Does it help raise the quality of care?".
Time frame: Visit 2: Week 4
QoL (Based on the Three OLI Domain Scores (Emotional Impact, Usual and Social Activities, and Coping and in Control)
The Ostomy Leak Impact (OLI) score comprises 22 questions, divided into the three domains: emotional impact (10 questions), usual and social activities (8 questions), and coping and in control (4 questions). The response to each question is rated on a 4-point Likert scale: 'all of the time', 'often', 'sometimes', and 'rarely or never' with higher scores indicating a better outcome. These responses are scored 0,1,2, and 3 respectively in the data processing. Because the domains contain a different number of questions, the score for each was transformed to the range of 0-100 to enable comparison across the three domains; the higher the score, the better level of leakage-related quality of life.
Time frame: Visit 1 (Week 0) and Visit 2 (Week 4)
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