Elopement or Escaping of Nursing Home Resident With or Without Dementia Clinical Trial
— ESCAPEOfficial title:
ESCAPE STUDY : A Specific Tool for Detecting Nursing Home Residents (With or Without Dementia) at Risk of Escaping for the Use of Caregivers: Psychometric Properties and Definition of Risk Levels
| NCT number | NCT03662464 |
| Other study ID # | 2016-55 |
| Secondary ID | IDRCB |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | |
| First received | |
| Last updated | |
| Start date | October 2018 |
| Est. completion date | April 2021 |
Residents' escapes occur even if most of the nursing homes (NH) have set up specific devices
to prevent from this risk. Therefore, the need to develop and validate a specific tool to
assess the risk of escaping was obvious to the working group, aim at emphasizing patient
centered-care by the nurses' staff and help to develop personalized devices.
Aim of the study: develop and validate a specific tool to score the risk of escaping in NH
residents Study design: Observational prospective multicentered cohort study Nursing homes
volunteer to participate Location: Provence Alpes Cotes d'Azur Region ( South East of France)
Population: 4050 NH residents. Duration: two years, each resident included is followed up for
one year Measures: Nursing homes characteristics, residents characteristics ( social and from
medical record); Escape Scale (25 items with a Yes/no answer; filled up during a nurses staff
meeting for each resident and every three months; 3 sub scales: resident environmental items,
social items, and medical items.
| Status | Recruiting |
| Enrollment | 4050 |
| Est. completion date | April 2021 |
| Est. primary completion date | October 2020 |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
| Gender | All |
| Age group | N/A and older |
| Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Every resident of Nursing home participating to the study - Living in the NH for three months or more - With a living prognosis longer than 3 Months Exclusion Criteria: - Prognosis less than three months - Bedridden (not able to move alone from bed to chair) - Nursing home short stay scheduled < 3 months |
| Country | Name | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | Direction Recherche clinique et Innovation | Marseille | Paca |
| Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
|---|---|
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille |
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| Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Escape/elopement occurence | Each Event occurrence is notify by the nurses staff at any time | 2 years |