Children With Medical Complexity (CMC), Home Care Services, Nurse-led Supportive Care, Self Efficacy, Symptom Management
Conditions
Keywords
Children requiring respiratory support
Brief summary
The aims of this study are to test the effectiveness of a nurse-led integrated home health service to enhance parental self-efficacy in symptom management for children requiring respiratory support, and alongside identify factors facilitating or deterring the program implementation. A single group pre-post quasi-experimental study on parents of CMC requiring respiratory support. Parents will be recruited from non-government organizations, with an estimated sample size of 80 parents. Self-administrated questionnaire, and semi-structured interview guide will be used for data collection.
Detailed description
Parents of children required respiratory support are at risk of high stress levels because these children have multisystem diseases, including severe neurologic conditions, resulting in potential premature death. Literature suggested that increasing parental self-efficacy in managing their child's symptoms could improve the child's health. Nurse-led integrated home health service in symptom management is an alternative method considered more comprehensive and health-parent interactivity to continue home-based support for these parents and their children. Self-administrated questionnaire, and semi-structured interview guide will be used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, including proportions for categorical variables, mean, and SD for normally distributed continuous variables, and median and inter-quartile range for non-normally distributed variables, will be reported. Generalized estimating equation will be used to address the objectives with appropriate link function. Qualitative data will be analyzed using thematic analysis to identify the facilitator, and barriers of program implementation.
Interventions
OTHERNurse-led integrated home service
Nurse-led integrated home service to support parents in Symptom Management for Children With Respiratory Support for a 3-month period.
Sponsors
Dr Winsome Lam
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Nurse-led integrated home health service to support parents in Symptom Management for Children With Respiratory Support
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Months to 22 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. parent of a child with respiratory support aged 6-month to 22 years old 2. having a Smartphone 3. able to communicate in Chinese or in English 4. living with his/her child at home.
Exclusion criteria
1. a reported mental health disorder 2. engaging in other structured programs related to symptom management 3. living in an area with no internet coverage
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Caregiving Self-efficacy | Time Frame: Day 0, Month 3, Month 6 | The scale consists of 18 items to measure the self-efficacy of Chinese caregivers. It is rated on a 9-point scale, with 1= no confidence, to 9 =full confidence. |
| Implementation evaluation | Time Frame: month 6 | Semi-structured interviews will be conducted to the related community stakeholders to evaluate the quality of service provided. Semi-structured interview guide will be used to collect qualitative data in four perspectives including: 1. reach: document the number of participants, and retention in the intervention 2. adoption: seek to find out if the intervention is appropriate and in action 3. implementation: understand stakeholders' perception if the intervention is acceptable and implemented as planned 4. maintenance: explore the facilitators and barriers in the sustainability of the nurse-led integrated home service |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Modified Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale | Time Frame: Day 0, Month 3, Month 6 | This is a modified 40-item Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS in Chinese version). The items for measuring the frequency and severity of symptoms are rated on a 4-point Likert scale from one (almost never) to four (always). The items for measuring distress are rated on a 5-point Likert scale from one (not at all) to five (very). A higher score on each subscale indicates the child is experiencing more symptom burden. |
| Children health service utilization | Time Frame: Day 0, Month 3, Month 6 | This is a record used to summarize a child's visits to outpatient clinic and emergency room, and the child's admission history. Higher non-scheduled health visit rates mean the child's health condition worsen |
| Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) (Chinese version) | Time Frame: Day 0, Month 3, Month 6 | DASS is a self-report instrument consisting of 21 items used to assess the states of depression, anxiety and stress in parents. It is rated on a 4-point scale from 0 (does not apply to me at all) to 3 (applies to me very much, or most of the time). A higher score on each subscale indicates more severe symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. |
Countries
China
Contacts
CONTACTWinsome Lam, PhD
Outcome results
None listed