Hospital-based caregiver intervention for people following hip fracture surgery (HIP HELPER): multicentre randomised
Toby O Smith1,2, Reema Khoury3, Sarah Hanson2
1Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK toby.smith@uea.ac.uk.
Objectives:
To assess the feasibility of conducting a pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an informal caregiver training programme to support the recovery of people following hip fracture surgery.
Design:
Two-arm, multicentre, pragmatic, open, feasibility RCT with embedded qualitative study.
Setting:
National Health Service (NHS) providers in five English hospitals.
Participants:
Community-dwelling adults, aged 60 years and over, who undergo hip fracture surgery and their informal caregivers.
Intervention:
Usual care: usual NHS care.
Experimental:
usual NHS care plus a caregiver-patient dyad training programme (HIP HELPER). This programme comprised three, 1 hour, one-to-one training sessions for a patient and caregiver, delivered by a nurse, physiotherapist or occupational therapist in the hospital setting predischarge. After discharge, patients and caregivers were supported through three telephone coaching sessions.
Randomisation And Blinding:
Central randomisation was computer generated (1:1), stratified by hospital and level of patient cognitive impairment. There was no blinding.
Main Outcome Measures:
Data collected at baseline and 4 months post randomisation included: screening logs, intervention logs, fidelity checklists, acceptability data and clinical outcomes. Interviews were conducted with a subset of participants and health professionals.
Results:
102 participants were enrolled (51 patients; 51 caregivers). Thirty-nine per cent (515/1311) of patients screened were eligible. Eleven per cent (56/515) of eligible patients consented to be randomised. Forty-eight per cent (12/25) of the intervention group reached compliance to their allocated intervention. There was no evidence of treatment contamination. Qualitative data demonstrated the trial and HIP HELPER programme was acceptable.
Conclusions:
The HIP HELPER programme was acceptable to patient-caregiver dyads and health professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic impacting on site's ability to deliver the research. Modifications are necessary to the design for a viable definitive RCT.
Trial Registration Number:
ISRCTN13270387.
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