Factors Influencing Home Nursing Care Service

Factors Influencing Home Nursing Care Service: a Pilot Study Shedding Light Over the Feasibility

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07099508

Acronym

HoNuCaS-01

Enrollment

200

Registered

2025-08-01

Start date

2025-09-30

Completion date

2025-11-30

Last updated

2025-08-01

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Home Care Services

Keywords

Home Nursing Care, Nursing time measurement, Travel time, Health planning

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

all patients receiving home care nursing services who agree to voluntary participation

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Factors thath influence home care nurses	From the enrollment to the end of the study at two months	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

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Time and space spent by the nurse traveling to the patient's home	From the enrollment to the end at two months	Travel times in minutes and distance traveled in Kilometers, calculated by the nurses from departure to arrival at each patients' home.

Contacts

Primary ContactMatteo Martinato, MSc, PhD

matteo.martinato@ubep.unipd.it+39 3358769308

Outcome results