Hospital-based caregiver intervention for people following hip fracture surgery (HIP HELPER): multicentre randomised controlled feasibility trial with embedded qualitative study in England.

ABSTRACT:

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 train

SUBMITTER: Smith TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729129 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature