Intervention for Depression Among Palliative Care Patients and their Families: Training Program for Care Staff

Among palliative care patients and their families, is a training intervention delivered to palliative care staff to detect and intervene when palliative care patients experience depression, compared with no training intervention, effective in improving their health and quality of life as well as improve palliative care staffs detection of depression and knowledge, positive attitudes, self-efficacy and care practices towards depressed palliative care patients?

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12610000183088

Enrollment

Registered

2010-03-01

Start date

2010-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This project is designed to assess the needs and barriers to providing interventions among palliative care staff. It will also evaluate the effectiveness of a training program to assist palliative care staff to detect and intervene when palliative care patients experience depression. This intervention is expected to improve the health and quality of life of patients and their families, as well as care staff.

Interventions

This study will be investigating the efficacy of a four-session training program for palliative care staff that aims to improve the detection, monitoring and management of depression in people receiving palliative care. The four 90-min sessions, delivered over approximately a month to groups of 8-10 staff members, will aim to train staff to better understand depression, understand masked depression, monitor and screen for depression and improve their communication skills and support for depresse

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Palliative care facility staff (direct carers/care assistants and senior staff including Division 1 and 2 nurses, and other allied health professionals) and family members of patients of palliative care facilities

Exclusion criteria

non-English speaking staff

Outcome results