Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

Dementia Clinical Trial

Official title:

E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03822286
• Other study ID #: YLH-10721
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 30, 2019
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Tzu Chi University
• Contact: HsinFeng SU, MSN
• Phone: 886980313695
• Email: ss205[@]ems.tcu.edu.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluate the effects of three-month dementia care e-training and mentoring support program on home-care workers using a two-group randomized controlled trial.

Description:

Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many training courses for home care staff are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs.

An innovative evidence-based online training with peer support program in dementia care was developed and consists of online cloud platform with various training courses and resources, on-the-job mentoring support by senior peers, and social networking in dementia care.

They can access to the online cloud platform by computers or smart phones anytime for immediate access to information in dementia care. They can also consult with senior peers for care problems by social network platform and attend monthly dementia care forum.

The interventional group attendance staff will accept 3-month e-training care online course, which was supervised by the supervisor and participated in the monthly counseling mentoring support group. The control group will accept the traditional dementedness care traditional classroom teaching course and will not accept any e-training .

The curriculum and counseling support group will collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, care abilities, work stress and burnout of the two groups in the pre-test, 3rd and 6th months and learn about their effectiveness.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,

• Literacy

• Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese,

• Caring for community clients with cognitive impairment or dementia

• Willing to participate in the study and provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia

Intervention

Other:
• e-training course
Home care staff received mainly self-study, you can download e-books on your lithography or personal mobile phone reading and learning, with lively animation, sound and video guide home staff Learn the knowledge of demented care. The e-book course sets out the themes of the eight demented care training courses.
• Support group
A counseling master mix 8~10 resident staff members, through the counselor to lead the symposium to the case home to implement technical guidance and through the set of social network groups to immediately discuss the care and solutions of dementia cases, and hold once a month in gathering, about 40~60 minutes each time.
• traditional classroom teaching course programs
Home care staff received the traditional demented care traditional classroom teaching course and did not accept any e-training and gathering.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	HsinFeng,Su	Hualien city

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tzu Chi University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale	To evaluate the staff care for knowledge of patients with dementia, range from 0-50, higher values represent the higher the care knowledge.	6 month
Primary	Approach to Dementia Questionnaire	To evaluate the staff care for Dementia care attitude, range from 19-95, higher values represent the more positive the attitude of the caregiver to dementia care.	6 month
Primary	Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale	To evaluate the staff care for demented patients, range from 16-68, higher values represent Staff have good care ability.	6 month
Primary	Maslach Burnout Inventory	To evaluate the Maslach Burnout Inventory,, range from 0-72, higher values represent a worse outcome.	6 month
Primary	Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale	The main purpose is to measure the working pressure situation. The scale has a total of 38 questions, eight faces, each facing the score range of 0-100 points. The higher the score, the greater the work pressure.	6 month