Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

Tzu Chi University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Other: Support group; Other: traditional classroom teaching course programs; Other: e-training course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03822286

YLH-10721

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluate the effects of three-month dementia care e-training and mentoring support program on home-care workers using a two-group randomized controlled trial.

Full description

Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many training courses for home care staff are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs.

An innovative evidence-based online training with peer support program in dementia care was developed and consists of online cloud platform with various training courses and resources, on-the-job mentoring support by senior peers, and social networking in dementia care.

They can access to the online cloud platform by computers or smart phones anytime for immediate access to information in dementia care. They can also consult with senior peers for care problems by social network platform and attend monthly dementia care forum.

The interventional group attendance staff will accept 3-month e-training care online course, which was supervised by the supervisor and participated in the monthly counseling mentoring support group. The control group will accept the traditional dementedness care traditional classroom teaching course and will not accept any e-training .

The curriculum and counseling support group will collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, care abilities, work stress and burnout of the two groups in the pre-test, 3rd and 6th months and learn about their effectiveness.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,
• Literacy
• Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese,
• Caring for community clients with cognitive impairment or dementia
• Willing to participate in the study and provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.

Treatment:

Other: Support group

Other: e-training course

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional classroom teaching course programs.

Treatment:

Other: traditional classroom teaching course programs