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Improving Staff Attitudes and Care for People With Dementia: eLearning

NCT03208517 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 282

Last updated 2018-09-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to determine whether a Person Centred Care online training programme confers significant benefit in terms of improving staff attitudes and quality of care of residents with dementia living in care homes, in comparison to enhanced usual training for professional care staff.

There is considerable interest in e-learning and dementia from care home providers. Significant investment has been made into the production of resources for care staff but to date there appears to be no, or very limited, evaluation of their effectiveness.

The aim is to provide a cost-effective, simple and practical evidence-based intervention, improving staff attitudes towards residents with dementia and quality of care provision. The trial will be a randomized controlled 3-arm cluster single blind trial that will take place over 9 months in 24 care homes in the UK.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Improving Wellbeing and Health for People with Dementia (WHELD) e-learning training programme

The e-learning WHELD intervention The optimised e-learning programme will consist of five 25-minute interactive online modules based on a recently completed RCT of an in person training programme (WHELD), combining the most effective elements of existing approaches to create a comprehensive but practical staff training intervention. Based on a factorial study and qualitative evaluation, WHELD combines: person-centred care, person-centred activities and interactions, and updated knowledge regarding optimal use of psychotropic medications.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Professor Clive Ballard · King's College London

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-01
Primary Completion
2017-05-07
Completion
2018-07-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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