Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care

Dementia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care: Development, Implementation and Evaluation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04262973
• Other study ID #: KMUHIRB-SV(1)-20170070
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
• Contact: PEI-CHAO LIN, doctoarte
• Phone: 886-7-3121101
• Email: pclin[@]kmu.edu.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 428
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia

Intervention

Other:
• education
six-hour dementia care course
• education and workshop
six-hour dementia care course, half-day interprofessional education workshop, and interprofessional practice

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital	Kaohsiung city

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change of Dementia Care Knowledge	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.	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]
Secondary	Change of dementia self-efficacy scale	testing professionals' dementia self-efficacy. The scale has not developed yet. It will be developed and test the reliability and validity in this study.	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]
Secondary	mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.	about 2 years
Secondary	length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.	about 2 years
Secondary	the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.	about 2 years
Secondary	the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.	about 2 years
Secondary	score of Beck depression inventory	testing psychological symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years
Secondary	score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)	testing behavioral symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years