Factors Influencing Home Nursing Care Service
ConditionHome Care Services
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorUniversity of Padova
About this trial
This pilot study investigates the feasibility of a prospective longitudinal observational approach to identify variables influencing home nursing care time. Conducted within the ULSS 6 Euganea health district in Italy, the study will analyze nursing care and travel time across approximately 350 home visits involving up to 200 voluntarily enrolled adult patients. Data will be collected anonymously by nurses using a digital tool (REDCap), capturing a predefined core set of variables previously selected via the Delphi method. The study aims to understand the association between individual, contextual, and organizational variables and the time required for home nursing interventions. Results will inform better planning and resource allocation for home care services.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
None
Trial population
Patients receiving home care nursing services: * Condition of frailty or dependence: often associated with chronic or degenerative diseases. * Presence or absence of family support network: the lack of caregivers can increase the required frequency of visits. * Multimorbidity: patients often suffer from multiple chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, heart failure, COPD, dementia). * Disabilities or functional limitations: motor, sensory, or cognitive impairments that necessitate home-based care. * Ongoing or complex healthcare needs: including advanced wound care, stoma management, enteral/parenteral nutrition, intravenous therapy. * End-of-life or palliative care: some patients receive home palliative care (e.g., type III Integrated Home Care).
Trial design
Design model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
No trial groups listed
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Factors thath influence home care nurses
Measure the factors that influence the work of home care nurses in individual subjects and different territorial contexts in relation to care time. * patient's socioeconomic status (age, level of education, understanding of italian language, rural or urban context,..) * patient's clinical status (hospitalizations, type of assistance needed, type of support, diagnosis, mobility status..) * caregiver (type, hours of formal and informal caregiving, coping, knowledge of the patient's medical history,..) * visit specific variables (presence of animals, number of services provided, time required for the service in minutes,..) * IDC-PAL items
Time frame
From the enrollment to the end of the study at two monthsSecondary outcomes
1
Time and space spent by the nurse traveling to the patient's home
Travel times in minutes and distance traveled in Kilometers, calculated by the nurses from departure to arrival at each patients' home.
Time frame
From the enrollment to the end at two monthsLocations
Sponsors and contacts
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University of Padova
Lead sponsor
Azienda Ulss 6 Euganea
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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