Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support for Home Care Staff

Dementia Clinical Trial

Official title: Evaluation of a Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support Program for Home Care Staff

Status Completed

Clinical Trial 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.

Clinical Trial 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. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia

• NCT number: NCT04788992
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 29, 2021
• Completion date: October 31, 2021