Clinical trial NCT05901506: Strengthen Family Members' Understanding of Advance Care Planning With a Nurse-led, Motivational Interview
Official title: Strengthen Family Members' Understanding of Advance Care Planning With a Nurse-led, Motivational Interview Educational Intervention: A Mixed-method Feasibility Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Members
Nursing Home
Older Adults
Keywords: Family Members
Advance Care Planning
Motivational Interview
Nursing Home
Older Adults
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-06-13
Enrollment: 14
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to strengthen the understanding of advance care planning (ACP) in family members of older adults in residential care homes with a nurse-led, motivational interview (MI) educational intervention.The main question it aims to answer is: The feasibility of the nurse-led, motivational interview educational intervention to promote family members' understanding of ACP.

Participants will receive a nurse-led, motivational interview educational intervention to see if the nurse-led, motivational interview educational intervention works in strengthening family members' knowledge on ACP and readiness for initiating conversations on ACP with their loved ones.

Detailed description: Targeted issue: Lack of feasible method exists to empower family members of older adults in residential care homes to engage in advance care planning (ACP).

Population: Family members who are identified by a resident aged above 65 years old in residential care homes.

Intervention: A nurse-led, stage-tailored, motivational interview (MI) educational intervention.

Study aim: To evaluate the preliminary feasibility of the nurse-led, motivational interview educational intervention to promote family members' understanding of ACP.

Study method: This is a mixed-methods design, including an intervention trial and qualitative process evaluation interview. Participants will receive a nurse-led, motivational interview educational intervention and research staff will track their readiness for ACP at three-time points (before the intervention \[T0\], 2-week \[T1\], 3-week \[T2\] post-intervention). In addition, a post-intervention interview, regarding participants' experience of receiving the intervention, will be conducted.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 and above
* Identified by a resident aged above 65 years old in the residential care home as family member by the HA's definition
* Able to read and write in Chinese

Exclusion Criteria:

* Moderate to severe cognitive impairment
* Severe hearing impairment, defined as unable to participate in a telephone conversation
* Primary language other than Cantonese or Mandarin
* No access to telephone
* Cannot read or write in Chinese

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in Family Members' Readiness for ACP at 2 Weeks
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline in Family Members' Readiness for ACP at 3 Weeks
timeFrame: 3 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The University of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Hong Kong, School of Nursing
name: Chia-Chin LIN, PhD,FAAN,RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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