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Effects of An ACP Programme for Older People With Early Dementia

NCT05240664 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2023-03-16

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Summary

Advance care planning (ACP) has been widely advocated for persons with early stage dementia (PWEDs). This proposed study attempts to promote the uptake of ACP for this population and their family caregivers in the community and to examine the effects of an ACP programme "Have a Say" for this population. It is hypothesized that participants in the intervention group will be more engaged in ACP and their dyadic concordance on end-of-life care preference with their family caregivers will be significantly higher than that in the control group.

Conditions

  • Dementia, Mild

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Have A Say Programme

Each dyad of participants will receive a 4-session ACP programme, which consists of 2 group-based sessions and 2 dyadic sessions, one hour for each session. The group-based sessions are led by nurse which include didactic educational components, guided reflection, videos, and group sharing. Dyads of participants will be provided with information about ACP, the trajectory of dementia, their future healthcare needs and caring options. Their values and care preferences on future care will be elicited in a consistent manner. The dyadic sessions are facilitated by trained ACP facilitators and guided by an ACP booklet. Dyads of participants will be supported to have an individualized ACP discussion guided by an ACP booklet. By the end of the programme, each dyad of participants will be given an ACP booklet documenting the ACP process.

BEHAVIORAL

Attention-control health talks

Dyads of participants in the control group will receive 4-session health talks. One hour for each session, and once weekly. The contents of the health talks are neither dementia-specific nor related to ACP, and cover general health information for elderly, such as drug safety, home safety, exercise and health, and healthy diet.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hong Kong Metropolitan University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-09
Primary Completion
2021-08-31
Completion
2021-08-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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