Evaluation of a decision support tool (application) for district nurses and dementia case managers

Laboratory experiment to evaluate the efficacy of a decision support tool for professionals to facilitate ‘aging in place’ of people with dementia

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON24721

Enrollment

Registered

2016-12-19

Start date

2017-01-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Decision support for district nurses and dementia case managers

Interventions

The intervention is a decision support tool (application installed on a tablet PC) supporting professionals in conducting a problem assessment and giving advices on possible solutions aiming to facili

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - professionals working as district nurse or dementia case manager; - nursing students (third or fourth year) with experience in community-based care

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Professionals who participated in the development of the application

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Level of confidence of professionals with regard to detection of problems and the advice on possible solutions	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Uniformity in decision making with regard to the problem assessment; Perceived added value of the application according to the participants; Usability of the decision support tool	—

Contacts

Public ContactTheresa Thoma-Lürken

Maastricht University

t.thoma@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)