CompletedNot Applicable

Caregivers Training Using Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality

Spain168 participantsStarted 2024-01-15

Plain-language summary

What the investigators propose. The use of disruptive digital technologies for their potential to improve caregivers training, ensure the adequacy of care and achieve a greater quality of life for recipients; increase the efficiency of interventions to support caregivers, quickly reaching a greater number of people; democratize access to adequate care; dignify the lives of people working in this sector, mostly women; develop a new sector of the economy by promoting the modernization and technification of the sector. The project seeks to place people at the center of interventions while respecting their digital rights. The investigators identify as disruptive technologies those based on recent innovations (such as virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence AI) with a high capacity to evolve rapidly, adapting to very different needs and sectors, and a high capacity to generate new business models. These emerging technologies open up new opportunities to improve the well-being of dependent people, provide new skills (including soft ones) to caregivers and would be also useful against gender stereotypes in the caregiving sector.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 65 Years

SexALL

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Study participants are qualified or unqualified caregivers who oversee patients in one of two groups: 1) multi-pathological, polymedicated, dependent, and 2) devices and catheters (oncological, ostomy, etc.). To facilitate recruitment, each centre will be provided with templates adjusted to the participants and arms to which they are committed. The inclusion criteria for each group are detailed below. Inclusion criteria for carers of multi-pathological, polymedicated and dependent patients * Qualified or unqualified carers caring for multi-pathological patients (coexistence of two or more chronic conditions lasting one year or more, requiring continuous medical assistance or limiting daily activities), polymedicated (simultaneous daily treatment of 5 or more drugs) and Barthel equal or lower than 55. * Carers who are in charge of this person for at least 6 months of the year. * Residence in C. Valenciana, Andalusia, R. de Murcia, C. Madrid and Catalonia (in the home of the patient or relative). Inclusion criteria for caregivers of patients with devices and catheters * Qualified or unqualified caregivers in charge of patients with a fixed catheter who require care from another person. * Carers who are in charge of that person for at least 6 months of the year. * Residence in C. Valenciana, Andalucía, R. de Murcia, C. Madrid and Cataluña (in the patient's or relative's home). Exclusion criteria The exclusion criteria are common to both groups of carers: * Caregivers of p…

What they're measuring

Change in number of caring errors and medication errors

Timeframe: 6 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05885334

SponsorFundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2025-05-31