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Exploring the Effectiveness the Attitude, Competence of Care, Empathy Among the Home Care Workers With Dementia People

NCT05541575 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 142

Last updated 2022-09-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study develop a new virtual reality course for home care workers to experience the view of dementia people with BPSD and the relative feelings. After the intervention, the experimental group would completed the several scales of attitude of care, competence of care and empathy, then the factor analysis and correlation analysis were measured.

In the first stage, a single group pre and post test study was conducted to extract 10 home caregivers of dementia care from Hondao Senior Citizen's Welfare Foundation. In order to explore the VR course affect the attitude of care, competent of care and empathy towards the dementia people in community, and future career.

In the second stage, this study use quasi experimental design. The experimental group (n=65) and the control group (n=65) each have a pre- and post-test design. The experimental group uses virtual reality courses for intervention experience, while the control group does not have intervention. After the two post-tests are completed, then provide the same immersive 3D VR experience as the experimental group. The measurement tools in this study used the Jefferson Empathy Scale (Chinese Version), The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Chinese Version), and three self-made scales focus on dementia care attitude scale, the dementia care competency scale and the virtual reality course experience scale.

Conditions

  • Empathy
  • Attitude
  • Competence

Interventions

OTHER

VR films

A new virtual reality course for home care workers to experience the view of dementia people with BPSD and the relative feelings.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chia-Jung Hsieh, PhD · National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-05
Primary Completion
2021-12-30
Completion
2022-06-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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