Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial
Official title:
Pressure Ulcer Prevention for SCI Using a Tele Home Program
NRI research focuses on nursing interventions that are patient-centered, culturally congruent, cost-effective and outcome-driven. High priority populations of interest are veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). The development of innovative tele home techniques for preventing pressure ulcers in veterans with SCI is of high importance in the VA. Our findings may provide clinicians with improved methods for skin and wound assessment and more effective and efficient PUP strategies for Hispanic and non Hispanic veterans. The new model for primary care, the patient-centered Medical Home provides an exciting change in the VA that can benefit from the proposed project.
The goal of the proposed project is to evaluate outcomes of a telehealth nursing
intervention based on a social cognitive behavioral model to promote self management in
pressure ulcer prevention, reduce costs and identify barriers and facilitators of using
telehealth technology in the home environment. The telehealth intervention links to the
Medical Home Model in the areas of providing self-management, patient education and family
involvement in the veterans' care at home. NRI research focuses on nursing interventions
that are patient-centered, culturally congruent, cost-effective and outcome-driven.
Improving SCI care and the quality of life in veterans is a critical component of the VA
mission. Veterans with SCI face many secondary complications including pressure ulcers (PU).
Although PUs in SCI has been conceptualized as a mechanical alteration in skin integrity,
there is ample evidence that supports the presence of a behavioral component to PU
development. Based on promising results from our feasibility and validation pilot study, we
propose "TELEPUPPS" (TELE pressure ulcer prevention problem solving), a program that
innovatively combines two unique and complementary telehealth technologies--wireless
tele-technology with camcorders and an in-home messaging device for veterans and their
informal caregivers to prevent PUs. The proposed project is a randomized, controlled
multi-site trial. The study will be conducted at the NF/SG VHS in Gainesville and Lake City,
Florida and the VA Caribbean Healthcare System (VACHS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Two hundred
and thirty-two Hispanic and non Hispanic white veterans with SCI, caregivers and the absence
of a PU for at least six months will be randomly assigned to one of two study arms: (1)
TELEPUPPS; or (2) telephone attention control (TAC). Both groups will receive the usual
medical care provided by the VA. The TELEPUPPS participants will learn self care management
of PUP through a program based on a social cognitive behavioral model to reinforce problem
solving and self-efficacy in preventing pressure ulcers. The program has been translated and
validated for Puerto Rican veterans using focus groups. The TELEPUPPS participants will
receive six TELEPUPPS sessions and the TAC participants will have six phone contacts every
other week for three months. All participants will be assessed at baseline (T1), three
months (T2), and nine months (T3).
Assessments will focus on 1) the study outcomes: PU prevention (Number of PUs and stage of
PU), QOL, depression, adherence to self-management strategies for PUP, veteran and caregiver
satisfaction, costs, and barriers and facilitators; (2) potential mediating variables:
problem solving and self-efficacy; and (3) covariates including demographics and socio
economics: age, ethnicity, education, marital status, rural vs. urban, caregiver, income,
employment/retired status and health status variables. VA Project
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Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind, Primary Purpose: Prevention
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