Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effectiveness of a Pressure Ulcer (PU) Prevention Programme for Older People in For-profit Private Nursing Homes (NHs): a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a PU prevention programme for for-profit private nursing homes
The study will be conducted as a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial, which will compare the efficacy of a PU prevention programme versus usual PU prevention for older people in eight for-profit private nursing homes in Hong Kong. For-profit private NHs recruited will be randomly assigned as experimental or control groups. The nursing homes in the experimental group will be implemented a PU prevention programme. The programme includes a training course which was tailor-made for health workers(HWs) and persona care workers (PCWs) and also a 16-week PU prevention protocol. The outcome measures are incidence and prevalence rate of PUs as well as level of PU knowledge and skill among care staff in the nursing homes. In data analysis, survival analysis will be adopted for identifying PU incidence and prevalence rate. GEE will be used to analyze the time and effect differences of PU knowledge and skills among the care staff between two groups. ;