Longitudinal Effectiveness of HEART Smartphone- Based Videoconferencing Program in Enhancing Residents and Family'Health

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior; Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Helper of Emotional Assessment Relationship Teaching (HEART) program; Behavioral: a web-based Relationship Teaching(RT)/communication education programs

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06448221

202100609B0A3

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study intends to understand the longitudinal effectiveness of the smartphone- based Helper of Emotional Assessment ＆Relationship Teaching (HEART) videoconferencing program in enhancing residents and family health through the employment of a sequential-methods, triangulation research design.

In the phase I lasing 18 months, it will employ: (a) a web-based RT/communication education programs which is develop based on understanding the experience of videoconferencing visit from family in nursing home, and (b) a HEA system which is for real-time face emotion recognition system used in videoconferencing will be developed and tested. In the phase II occupying the second 18 months it will evaluate the longitudinal effects of the HEART program on residents' and family's health change over time (baseline, 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months).

Nursing homes in Taiwan will be automated computerized blocked randomly assigned to three groups: (a) An RT group, which receives the RT program and uses 3 months' smartphone-based videoconferencing without the HEA system, (b) A HEART group, which receives the RT program and uses 3 months smartphone-based videoconferencing along with the HEA system, and(c) A control group, which has only smartphone-based videoconferencing visits.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. residents were aged equal or higher than 60 years, resident's family were aged equal or higher than 20 years.
2. both residents and family could communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese
3. both residents and family have no serious hearing problems
4. residents has a MMSE score equal or higher than 16 for residents with no formal education or higher than 24 for residents with at least a primary school education
5. both residents and family agree to participate,
6. family is the significant member of residents, such as caregivers.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 3 patient groups

RT group

Experimental group

Description:

receives the RT program and uses 3 months' smartphone-based videoconferencing without the HEA system

Treatment:

Behavioral: a web-based Relationship Teaching(RT)/communication education programs

HEART group

Experimental group

Description:

receives the RT program and uses 3 months smartphone-based videoconferencing along with the HEA system

Treatment:

Behavioral: Helper of Emotional Assessment Relationship Teaching (HEART) program

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

which has only smartphone-based videoconferencing visits