Dementia
Conditions
Keywords
dementia, hospital, acute care, interprofessional education, interprofessional practice
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to develop an interprofessional education and practice model for acute care related to dementia and evaluate its effectiveness of implementation.
Detailed description
The researchers will recruit participants from a medical center (experimental group) and two regional hospitals (control group) in southern Taiwan. Both the experimental group and the control group will contain 150 healthcare professionals and 64 patients with dementia. Both of the groups will receive a six-hour dementia care course. Then, only the experimental group will receive a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences. The evaluation of outcomes will include the analyses of healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of dementia care. The evaluation times are to be before and after the dementia care course and after the six months of interprofessional practice. The other evaluation of outcome is comparison of the outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia between the two groups before the interprofessional education workshop and after the interprofessional practice.
Interventions
OTHEReducation
six-hour dementia care course
OTHEReducation and workshop
six-hour dementia care course, half-day interprofessional education workshop, and interprofessional practice
Sponsors
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* healthcare professionals having worked for 3 months or more * emergency/hospitalized patients with dementia * patients diagnosed dementia * scoring 1 or more in Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR).
Exclusion criteria
* healthcare professionals working in obstetrics, pediatrics, outpatient, or hemodialysis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change of Dementia Care Knowledge | Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months] | testing the change of professionals' Dementia Care Knowledge. The minimum value of this scale is 0, and the maximum value is 16. Higher scores mean having better Dementia Care Knowledge. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia | about 2 years | understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months. |
| length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia | about 2 years | understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months. |
| the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia | about 2 years | understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months. |
| Change of dementia self-efficacy scale | Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months] | testing professionals' dementia self-efficacy. The scale has not developed yet. It will be developed and test the reliability and validity in this study. |
| score of Beck depression inventory | about 2 years | testing psychological symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia |
| score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) | about 2 years | testing behavioral symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia |
| the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia | about 2 years | understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months. |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactPEI-CHAO LIN, doctoarte
Outcome results
None listed