N/A Completed N=446 Randomized Supportive Care

The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Care

Postoperative Pain

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01211340 ↗

Enrolled (actual)

446

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Jun 2017

Primary outcomePrimary: Caregiver Perceptions of Pain Medicine Questionaire — 49.6; 49; 50.3; 50.5 units on a scale — p=.18

Summary

The ACTIVE Intervention to Improve Hospice Caregiver Pain Management The major goal of this project is to implement and test this promising intervention in three hospice programs. The mixed methods evaluation of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) will provide evidence-based data for a tested intervention manual that hospice staff members can use to integrate the intervention into their practices.

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Caregiver Perceptions of Pain Medicine Questionaire	49.6; 49; 50.3; 50.5	.18
SECONDARY Caregiver Quality of Life-Revised Subscale Emotional	7.06; 7.61; 6.95; 7.19	.15
SECONDARY Anxiety	6.65; 5.86; 6.37; 5.86	.89

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Informal Caregiver Inclusion Criteria

Informal caregiver of an enrolled hospice patient
Age 18 or over and legally able to provide informed consent
Involved in decisions related to pain medications
Access to at least one of the below:
A standard land line telephone
A high-speed Internet connection with operational computer
Without functional hearing loss or with a hearing aid that allows the participant to conduct phone or Internet conversations as assessed by the research staff (by questioning and observation

Exclusion Criteria:Informal caregivers of hospice patients with a life expectancy less than 14 days as assessed by the hospice nurse with the palliative performance scale (PPS) (99)

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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01211340). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.