Mobile Health Application for Family Caregivers in Home Palliative Care
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorKutahya Health Sciences University
About this trial
Family caregivers play a central role in providing daily care for patients receiving home palliative care. However, caregiving responsibilities may lead to increased burden, stress, and difficulties in symptom management and care coordination. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions may provide accessible education, symptom monitoring, and decision-support resources to improve caregiver outcomes and patient care.
The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile health application developed for family caregivers of patients receiving home palliative care. The primary outcome is caregiver competence. Secondary outcomes include caregiver burden, self-efficacy, patient symptom burden, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.
A total of 120 family caregivers will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group, which will use the mobile health application for 6 weeks in addition to usual care, or the control group, which will receive usual care alone. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention (Week 6), and follow-up (Week 18).
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Family caregiver of a patient receiving home palliative care services.
Aged 18 years or older.
Providing unpaid care to the patient for at least 3 months.
Able to read and understand Turkish.
Disqualifiers
Professional or paid caregivers.
Participation in another structured caregiver support program during the study period.
Cognitive, visual, or hearing impairments that would prevent effective use of the mobile application.
Inability to complete study assessments.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Mobile Health Application
Treatment groups
120 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov