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NCT07232901: FAMCARE
Implementing Family Participation Training in Tertiary Hospital Care in Bangladesh
NA trial testing Family Caregiver Training in Family Participation in Hospital Care in 1,029 participants. Completed in 12 January 2026.
31 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Michele van Vugt |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | sequential |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | health services research |
| Enrollment | 1,029 |
| Start date | 9 August 2025 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 12 January 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across Bangladesh |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Family Caregiver Training
Conditions studied
- Family Participation in Hospital Care — all drugs for Family Participation in Hospital Care →
- Hospital Medicine — all drugs for Hospital Medicine →
- Training Family Caregivers — all drugs for Training Family Caregivers →
Sponsor
Michele van Vugt
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Family Participation in Hospital Care or Hospital Medicine. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The goal of this trial is to evaluate whether a family participation training intervention can reduce caregiver strain and health worker workload, and improve patient outcomes and collaboration in the medicine wards of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). General objectives: * To assess the effect of a family participation training intervention on the medicine wards of CMCH. (Stepped-wedge) * To examine how, for whom and under what circumstances a family participation training intervention works. (Realist evaluation) Specific objectives: * To examine the implementation of a family participation training intervention. * To investigate the acceptability and feasibility of a family participation training intervention. The study will use a step-by-step roll-out, introducing training at different times in three wards, to see if it improves care compared to usual practice. Study participants will include adult patients, their family caregivers, nurses, doctors, ward assistants, and hospital administrators. Health workers will be trained to deliver sessions to family caregivers of hospitalised patients on hospital introduction, basic care tasks, warning sign detection, oral medication administration, caregiver handover, and discharge preparedness.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Related trials
Other Michele van Vugt trials
Trials by the same sponsor.
- NCT06632288 — Family Participation in Ghana Hospital Care · completed
- NCT06632275 — Family Participation in Bangladesh Hospital Care · completed
Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07232901 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Michele van Vugt
- Last refreshed: 26 January 2026
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