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Care of Older People With Cognitive Impairment or Dementia Hospitalized in Traumatology Units

NCT04048980 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 432

Last updated 2019-08-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a quasi-experimental design with repeated observations, taken at baseline, post-intervention, and at one and three months post-intervention. Participants will be patients hospitalized with cognitive disorders o dementia and a femur fracture. The study will be developed in four general hospitals in Spain and will include 430 patients with dementia (PwD) and their informal caregivers (IC). The study sample will be assigned to the control group (n=215) from each hospital involved and will receive the standard treatment. After completing the recruitment for the control group, the investigators will start to recruit patients until experimental patient group is complete (n=215) from each hospital to whom the CARExDEM intervention will be implemented.

Conditions

  • Dementia
  • Femur Fracture
  • Continuity of Patient Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CARExDEM

CARExDEM is an educational program addressed to nurses working in traumatology units and looking after patients with dementia. This intervention pretends to provide strategies to nurses for cognitive impairment management in acute hospital settings, to raise awareness about personalized care in dementia and to improve continuity of care in acute situations in PwD. Training sessions will be held to inform and train nurses about care of PwD and their caregivers by the research team in each hospital.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Puerta de Hierro University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla

    collaborator OTHER

  • Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra

    collaborator OTHER

  • Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-30
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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