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Person- Centred Care Among Nursing Home Patients With Dementia

NCT01280890 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 624

Last updated 2012-06-12

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Summary

Dementia is a common and devastating disease in the elderly. No cure exist and there is an increasing need for care. To improve knowledge on how to provide better care for the patients with dementia in nursing homes, the investigators will carry out a controlled trial using two forms of education and developmental interventions towards the nursing home care staff: a structured framework (VIPS) and dementia care mapping (DCM)to develop person-centred care in a 10 months randomised controlled study. In accordance with the knowledge found in the literature the investigators hypothesize that both VIPS framework and DCM will be more effective than a traditional educational program about dementia provided to the staff in nursing homes. The positive effects will be seen as reduced agitation in patients, less use of psychotropic drugs and improved quality of life. Using VIPS framework and DCM will also have a better effect on staffs' well-being than traditional education in dementia. The aim of the study is to confirm or reject these hypotheses.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Staff training using VIPS

Staff training using the VIPS framework

BEHAVIORAL

Staff training using DCM

The staff will be supervised using Dementia Care Mapping

BEHAVIORAL

Control group

Filmed traditional Lectures will be given to care staff

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Research Council of Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Knut Engedal, Dr.med · Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-06-30

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