San Rocco Study: Implementation of the Non-pharmacological Therapies for People With Dementia Living in Nursing Home

Summary

The goals of this clinical trial are 1) to estimate the number of professional caregivers and the time spent to carry out the non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia and 2) to evaluate differences between professional caregivers trained and non-trained to non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia in term of caregivers' burnout and well-being of people with dementia living in nursing home.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How long does it take professional caregivers to implement and carry out non-pharmacological therapies?
* How many caregivers are needed to start and carry out non-pharmacological therapies?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve the quality of life of people with dementia?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve professional caregiver burnout, sense of competence and ethical climate in nursing home?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce family caregivers' stress?

Participants will attend ten sessions:

* five theoretical meetings on dementia and non-pharmacological therapies;
* five supervision meetings on the methodology for implementing non-pharmacological therapies based on discussions of cases.

The investigators will compare the experimental group with an usual care control group to see if there are improvements in term of the quality of life of the resident perceived by the team, professional caregivers burnout, sense of competence of the carers and the ethical climate at the workplace.

Conditions

• Nursing Home
• Dementia
• Staff

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Training on non-pharmacological therapies' methodology

The San Rocco study encompasses a training on the non-pharmacological therapies' methodology. It allows the professional caregiver to methodological definition of the non-pharmacological interventions and a comparison of shared readings of the challenging behaviors by the group of colleagues. Participants will follow: * Five meetings, lasting 11 hours overall, on the multidimensional assessment, the shared readings of behavioral disorders of each person and identification of the objectives through the discussion of cases, and administration of non-pharmacological therapies within the framework of the personalization of the interventions * Five meetings, lasting five and a half hours, for the supervision of the staff which implement the non-pharmacological therapies. As usual control group Participants will continue the usual care activities and non-pharmacological interventions already in use in the Nursing Homes without participating in the training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Associazione Ginco Ticino

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rita Pezzati, Professor · Ginco Ticino Association

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-02-11

Primary Completion

2023-01-31

Completion

2023-01-31

Countries

• Switzerland

Study Locations