An Innovative Occupational Program Using New Technologies (KODRO) Life of Nursing

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Home Residents

Treatments: Other: stimulating activities

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02992054

9215

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized controlled trial for assessing the effects resulting from an innovative occupational program using new technologies (KODRO) on nursing home residents' quality of life

Context : improving quality of life (QOL) for the nursing homes residents (NHR) is a national priority (2010 report from French ANESM).

Full description

KODRO stimulation program makes available stimulating activities through the use of a tactile tablet computer. These tablets are linked to an internet-based service platform The project main objective is to demonstrate by way of a randomized controlled trial the significance of the improvement of residents' QOL achieved by 2 one-hour KODRO sessions per week during 6 months (KODRO nursing homes) when compared with the usual stimulation activity program (nursing homes "controls") (difference for the QOL-AD score > 2 points).At last, the objective of the study is also observational, i.e. to determine the quality of life of NHR at baseline, in its differents aspects.Subjects & methods Analysis will be conducted to compare quantitative parameters at the beginning of the trial to verify the comparability of the two groups and of the mean average change between parameters measured at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months in both groups.

Enrollment: 239 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 months to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nursing home residents

Exclusion criteria

• Not able to participate in the ocupational therapy using KODRO (Demential end of life ...)

Trial design

239 participants in 2 patient groups

Stimulating activities with the use of tactile tablet computer

Description:

Stimulating activities through the use of a tactile tablet computer. These tablets are linked to an internet-based service platform and offer a very easy and intuitive interaction for the user, even when this person is suffering from a moderate cognitive and/or physical impairment.

Treatment:

Other: stimulating activities

Stimulating activities with usual stimulation activity program

Description:

No Stimulating activities through the use of a tactile tablet computer