ESCAPE Study : Validation of a Specific Tool Scoring Residents at Risk of Escaping/Elopement From Nursing Homes (ESCAPE)

ESCAPE STUDY : A Specific Tool for Detecting Nursing Home Residents (With or Without Dementia) at Risk of Escaping for the Use of Caregivers: Psychometric Properties and Definition of Risk Levels

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03662464

Acronym

ESCAPE

Enrollment

4050

Registered

2018-09-07

Start date

2018-10-31

Completion date

2021-04-30

Last updated

2018-10-04

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Elopement or Escaping of Nursing Home Resident With or Without Dementia

Brief summary

Residents' escapes occur even if most of the nursing homes (NH) have set up specific devices to prevent from this risk. Therefore, the need to develop and validate a specific tool to assess the risk of escaping was obvious to the working group, aim at emphasizing patient centered-care by the nurses' staff and help to develop personalized devices. Aim of the study: develop and validate a specific tool to score the risk of escaping in NH residents Study design: Observational prospective multicentered cohort study Nursing homes volunteer to participate Location: Provence Alpes Cotes d'Azur Region ( South East of France) Population: 4050 NH residents. Duration: two years, each resident included is followed up for one year Measures: Nursing homes characteristics, residents characteristics ( social and from medical record); Escape Scale (25 items with a Yes/no answer; filled up during a nurses staff meeting for each resident and every three months; 3 sub scales: resident environmental items, social items, and medical items.

Interventions

OTHERNo intervention

develop and validate a specific tool to score the risk of escaping in Nursing Homes residents

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Every resident of Nursing home participating to the study * Living in the NH for three months or more * With a living prognosis longer than 3 Months

Exclusion criteria

* Prognosis less than three months * Bedridden (not able to move alone from bed to chair) * Nursing home short stay scheduled \< 3 months

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Escape/elopement occurence	2 years	Each Event occurrence is notify by the nurses staff at any time

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactElisabeth POULIN

elisabeth.poulin@ap-hm.fr06 79 72 41 09

Backup ContactSylvie Bonin-Guillaume

Sylvie.BONIN@ap-hm.fr003391744612

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026