Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes (SAM-AKS)

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease; Agitation; Behavioral Symptoms; Dementia

Treatments: Other: Education and Supervision; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01217541

50022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Dementia is a serious health problem showing an increasing prevalence rate with increasing age. In Norway, about 80% of nursing home patients have dementia. The mean age of nursing home residents in Norway is around 84 years. Disruptive and agitated behaviour affect 30-50% of all individuals with dementia at some point in the course of the illness. In addition, they have a combination of physical and psychological diseases which necessitates a close collaboration between different specialities in medicine and Old Age psychiatry. In collaboration with the communalities, our Old Age psychiatry services want to provide a new approach to this challenge and validate it on patient and personnel level.

Enrollment: 700 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients at nursing home units

Exclusion criteria

• Patients that are in a final state and patients that have not been at the nursing home unit more than two weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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700 participants in 2 patient groups

Education and supervision

Other group

Description:

Personnel in nursing home units get intervention in form of education and supervision

Treatment:

Other: Control

Other: Education and Supervision

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Only registering of patient and personnel data in the beginning and the end of the study without any form of intervention.