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Mealtime Symptoms in Dementia

NCT02269956 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2017-04-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to combine current evidence-based guidelines with adaptive leadership (AL) training to assist nursing staff to navigate the delicate balance of necessary technical and adaptive work to improve problematic dementia-related mealtime symptoms.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

12 week feasibility study

: At baseline, weeks 6 and 12, dementia feeding skills knowledge and self-efficacy tests will be administered, meal observations of nursing staff assisting PWD with meals will be video recorded for three meals over two days, and a medical record review will be conducted to ascertain technical and adaptive interventions also in place for the PWD (e. g., high density protein supplements, appetite stimulant medications, weighing, diet texture modifications). After baseline data is collected, the training program will delivered in five weekly modules with group coaching sessions completed the same week

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Melissa Batchelor-Murphy, PhD · Duke University School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-09-01
Completion
2016-09-01

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