N/A
N=80
Piloting a Multi-component Technology-based Care Intervention to Address Patient Symptoms in Home Hospice
Hospice
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04243538 ↗Enrolled (actual)
80
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Aug 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Participant Recruitment Rate — 37.7 percentage of enrolled participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- I-HoME (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Primary completion
- Oct 2024
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Participant Recruitment Rate |
37.7 | — |
| PRIMARY Participant Attrition From Enrollment to End of Study |
0; 5 | — |
| PRIMARY Average Length of I-HoME Tele-visit |
22.5 | — |
| PRIMARY Total Number of Educational Videos Watched by I-HoME Intervention Arm Participants |
23 | — |
| PRIMARY Number of I-HoME Intervention Caregivers Who Experienced Technical Issues During the Tele-visits. |
0; 13; 0; 22 | — |
| PRIMARY Percentage of Tele-visits With Hardware Issues Out of the Total Number of Tele-visit Intervention Visits |
— | — |
| PRIMARY Percentage of Tele-visits Conducted Out of the Total Possible Tele-visits. |
89.6 | — |
| SECONDARY Patients' Symptom Burden Score as Rated by the Caregiver, Measured at Baseline and Weekly for 6 Weeks. |
39.0; 43.7; 38.0; 40.7; 34.6; 42.5 | — |
| SECONDARY Number of Patient Hospitalizations From Enrollment to End of Intervention |
— | — |
Summary
With the growth of hospice, older adults have the opportunity to receive home-based care aimed at reducing suffering and focusing on quality of life at the end of life. While use of technology and educational videos has yet to be fully developed, structured, and evaluated in home hospice care, it has shown promise to improve care in other settings. Therefore, this study aims to develop and evaluate a multi-component technology-based care intervention, i.e., Improving Home hospice Management of End of life issues through technology (I-HoME).
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Home hospice caregivers must be:
- English speaking
- 18 years of age or older
- not blind
- having a family member receiving home hospice care
Home hospice patients must be:
- English speaking
- 65 years of age or older
- not blind
- enrolled in home hospice care.
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients with a terminal diagnosis of dementia or patients who have cognitive impairment and unable to sign a written informed consent will be excluded.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04243538). 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.