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Intervention to Improve Shared Decision Making Among Seniors With Dementia, Their Caregivers and Healthcare Providers

NCT02956694 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2020-03-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia causes new challenges to ensure that healthcare decisions are informed by research evidence and reflect what is important for seniors and their caregivers. Primary care providers point to a need for more training on communication with families of seniors living with dementia, and on the non-pharmacological health options that are often recommended before use of medications.Therefore, the investigators will design and evaluate an intervention to train primary healthcare providers on how to empower seniors with dementia and their caregivers in making health-related decisions based on research evidence and on their preferences and priorities. A distance professional training program on shared decision making will initially be designed, comprising evidence summaries to be shared with patients living with dementia and their caregivers who face difficult decisions. Patients with dementia, their caregivers and healthcare providers, will then provide feedback on the training program, which will then be improved following their suggestions. In a last step, the investigators will study the processes required to implement this training program and measure its effects on provider knowledge and intention to adopt shared decision making.

Conditions

  • Dementia
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Professional-Family Relations
  • Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Professional e-learning program on shared decision making

Clinicians will have access to a, e-learning program on shared decision making (e-TUDE) during one month. They will also receive five Decision Boxes (DB) dealing with difficult decisions often faced by seniors with dementia and their caregivers in primary care. They will receive five DBs by email, at a rate of 1 per week for 5 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation du Québec

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • SOVAR

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Laval University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Anik Giguère

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anik MC Giguere, PhD · Laval University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-01
Primary Completion
2018-10-08
Completion
2018-10-08

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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