Dementia Early Recognition and Response in Primary Care

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop and test an educational intervention for dementia in primary care, combining timely diagnosis, psychosocial support around the period of diagnosis and management concordant with guidelines.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

OTHER

Educational Dementia training

Tailored learning activities on dementia, over a three-month period and will be given an electronic training manual (based on Microsoft packages) which they can run in the background during and after consultations with people with known or suspected dementia syndrome and face-to- face individualised workshop sessions. Tailoring of the education programme is carried out in a three step process: 1) an educational needs analysis is carried our using a standard checklist to identify aspects of dementia care which the practice perceives as problematic for them; 2) a prescription for education is then written to address shortcomings; 3) the best forms of learning are then identified.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

  collaborator OTHER

• King's College London

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Hertfordshire

  collaborator OTHER

• St George's, University of London

  collaborator OTHER

• London School of Economics and Political Science

  collaborator OTHER

• Imperial College London

  collaborator OTHER

• University College, London

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jane Wilcock, MA(hons) MSc · University College, London

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2009-07-31

Primary Completion

2011-05-31

Completion

2012-09-30

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations