Helping Invested Families Improve Veterans Experiences Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Caregiver, Disabled Veterans, Referred to Long-term Care, Residing at Home, Hospice Ineligible

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a caregiver skill training program (HI-FIVES), offered as a part of a randomized control trial to caregivers of Veterans referred to home and community-based long-term care. Of primary interest is to examine whether participating in HI-FIVES leads to clinically significant increases in days spent at home for Veterans compared to caregivers in usual care. The investigators aim, through the training, to decrease the number of days over 12 months post-intervention that Veterans spend in the emergency department, hospital, or nursing home. Days spent in these settings reduces the Veteran's quality of life and increases health care costs to the VA. The investigators also will evaluate whether caregivers in HI-FIVES have clinically significant reductions in depressive symptoms post-intervention compared to caregivers in usual care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01777490

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

484

Starts

2014-02-05

Expected to finish

2017-12-29

Last updated by the study team

2019-02-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient referred to home and community-based services in the past 3 months,
• not eligible for hospice,
• residing at home,
• has an informal caregiver, and willing to let us contact the caregiver.
• To be referred successfully to HCBC,
• patients will have a minimum of 2 activity of daily living limitations,
• and are likely to have multimorbidity, including high rates of cognitive impairment.

You may not qualify if…

• Cognitively impaired Caregiver
• Caregiver does not have access to a telephone.
• Severely impaired hearing or speech (Caregivers must be able to respond to phone calls).
• English Language Impaired - Caregiver
• Substance Abuse Disorders - Caregiver
• Caregiver participating in other caregiver intervention
• Patient referred only for physical or occupational therapy
• Patient or caregiver refuses informed consent
• Patient in hospital

Where it is running

• Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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