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Systematic Pain Assessment in Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia

NCT02945865 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 112

Last updated 2019-04-30

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Summary

It is estimated that 45-80 % of nursing home residents have substantial pain at any given time. Residents with impaired cognition have been found to report chronic pain more often, more frequent and more severe, compared to residents with normal cognition. Approximately 3/4 of permanent residents in nursing homes in Norway have developed dementia. The burden of dementia is often compounded by painful conditions. Despite over a decade of research on the subject, inadequate pain assessment and management remain significant problems among institutionalized older adults, with and without dementia. The poor pain management in patients with dementia has been attributed, at least in part, to difficulties with, and lack of, pain assessment in this population. Therefore, this study seek to determine the effect of regular pain assessment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Pain assessment

Pain assessment with assessment tools

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oslo Metropolitan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Liv Halvorsrud, PhD · Associate Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-26
Primary Completion
2016-06-01
Completion
2018-03-17

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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