Heart Rate Informed Changes in Care for Non-Communicating Patients
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age5-70
SponsorUniversity of Oslo
About this trial
The overarching aim is to generate knowledge to reduce incidence of pain in non-verbal patients' everyday life. The trial will 1) evaluate how HR can be used to identify potentially painful care procedures that should be re-evaluated in terms of the approach taken; 2) test the effect of heart rate (HR)-informed changes in potentially painful care procedures on biomarkers of pain, and 3) assess how six weeks of communication through HR affects the quality of communication between patient and caregiver.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Between 5 and 70 years of age at the time of data collection
Autism spectrum disorder as evaluated by clinical psychologist
Communication difficulties
Living at a care home with round-the-clock staff for at least five days a week; or attending one-to-one staffed school/day-care at least five days a week.
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- HR-informed change in routine
- Delayed HR-informed specific change in routine
Treatment groups
38 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov