Education Program for Care Home Staff

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Other: Printed educational materials; Other: Dementia Competence Education for care home setting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04445077

2019.500

Details and patient eligibility

About

The competence of care home staff in dementia care is highly influential to the quality of care that adversely affects both people living with dementia and staff and in Mainland China where knowledge on dementia among care home staff was generally poor and this area is under-researched. This study aims at developing a competency-based culturally-sensitive education program on dementia care for care home staff through literature review, qualitative study. And then a quasi-experiment design without random assignment will be conducted to evaluate the effects of this program on care home staff's sense of competence, knowledge, attitudes, and care approach related to dementia care and staff satisfaction with the intervention. Focus group interviews will be conducted to understand participants' experience about the education program after the intervention. This study is expected to provide an effective way to improve care homes staff's competence in dementia care thereby improve the quality of care.

Enrollment: 144 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Care homes:

• having at least 10 people with dementia living in;
• with at least 10 care staff working for people with dementia;
• which do not have any educational activities for staff in dementia three months before the study and staff training plan during the whole study period;
• whose management level agrees to participate.

Care staff:

• working for people with dementia;
• speaking and reading Chinese;
• being willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• having any educational activities in dementia three months before the study;
• having a training plan during the whole study period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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144 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The education will be delivered weekly with 60-90 minutes per lecture for eight lectures. Multiple teaching methods will be used, including lectures, structured handouts, video, role play, case study and discussion. During the study period, the research team will provide ongoing support and consultation through electronic communication and bimonthly field visits.

Treatment:

Other: Dementia Competence Education for care home setting

Control group

Other group

Description:

Printed materials will be given to the participants in the control group for their self-study.

Treatment:

Other: Printed educational materials