Dementia
Conditions
Keywords
Home care staff, dementia care, virtual reality
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.
Detailed description
Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many lack empathy for those with dementia. Training courses for home care staff often are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs. This two-group cluster randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff. The dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program. The interventional group will receive a dementia care training using dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program. The control group will only receive dementia care e-books and peer support with no dementia virtual reality activity. Both groups will be assessed for their dementia care knowledge, attitudes, care competence, work stress and empathy at baseline, month 3, and 6.
Interventions
OTHERIntervention group
Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.
OTHERControl group
Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity
Sponsors
Tzu Chi University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Intervention model description
two-group cluster randomised controlled trial
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* age 20 to 65 years * Taiwanese nationality * had worked as a home care staff for at least three months * had experience in providing home care for patients with dementia * had a mobile phone or tablet and regular access to the internet
Exclusion criteria
* Home care staff who do not meet the inclusion criteria * can not provide informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale | 6 months | To evaluate care staff's knowledge of dementia, range from 0-50 |
| Approach to Dementia Questionnaire | 6 moths | To evaluate care staff's attitude toward Dementia, range from 19-95 |
| Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale | 6 months | To evaluate care staff's competence of caring for people with dementia, range from 16-68 |
| Jefferson Scale of Empathy | 6 months | To evaluate care staff's level of empathy toward patients, score range from 20-140 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Simple Work Stress Scale | 6 moths | To evaluate level of work stress of care staff |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed