Effects of a Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce Physical Restraints for Care Providers in Nursing Homes

Su-Hua Liang

Status: Completed

Conditions: Older People; Intervention; Nursing Homes

Treatments: Other: multifactorial interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05193773

104-5256B

Details and patient eligibility

About

Scholars from around the world have been strongly advocating restraint-free care in long-term care institutions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a multifactorial intervention to reduce physical restraints for care providers in nursing homes.

Full description

In Taiwanese nursing homes, the use of physical restraints on residents as a protective measure is fairly common. However, physical restraints can be seen as a violation of human rights, and there is no guarantee of the effectiveness or safety of such physical restraints.This study was to evaluate the effects of a multifactorial intervention to reduce physical restraints for care providers in nursing homes. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted using pretest-posttest control group design. A purposive sampling of participants was chosen from care providers of 6 nursing home institutions in Taiwan, who were then randomly assigned to the experimental group (3 nursing homes) or the control group (3 nursing homes). The experimental group underwent multifactorial interventions to reduce physical restraint.

Enrollment: 354 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A full-time care provider
• Worked in a nursing home for more than three months
• Care providers have imposed physical restraints on elderly residents aged 60 or above Within the last month.

Exclusion criteria

• can't speak or read chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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354 participants in 2 patient groups

comparison group

No Intervention group

Description:

The Control Group received no extra care.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention Group, Intervention with follow-up, will have a multifactorial interventions to reduce physical restraint.

Treatment:

Other: multifactorial interventions