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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04788992
• Other study ID #: YLH-IRB-10815
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 29, 2021
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: January 2022
• Source: Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 124
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia

Intervention

Other:
• Intervention group
Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.
• Control group
Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Mennonite Social Welfare foundation	Hualien City

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale	To evaluate care staff's knowledge of dementia, range from 0-50	6 months
Primary	Approach to Dementia Questionnaire	To evaluate care staff's attitude toward Dementia, range from 19-95	6 moths
Primary	Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale	To evaluate care staff's competence of caring for people with dementia, range from 16-68	6 months
Primary	Jefferson Scale of Empathy	To evaluate care staff's level of empathy toward patients, score range from 20-140	6 months
Secondary	Simple Work Stress Scale	To evaluate level of work stress of care staff	6 moths