Establishment and Application of Dementia Case Management Information System: A Preliminary Study

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Procedure: dementia case management information system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05131789

ZRRPF3L0041

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop and examine the preliminary effects of an information system for facilitating dementia case management in the home setting.

This study is the second phase of the project. The first year is the development stage of the information system. In the second year, the investigators will conduct a pilot study to examine the effectiveness of the case management information system.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to develop and examine the preliminary effects of an information system for facilitating dementia case management in the home setting. In the previous research (phase I), a mixed method was used to explore the content of case management and assess the needs of the information system.

This study is the second phase of the project. The first year is the development stage of the information system. Based on the data collected in the previous research (phase I), the content and method of dementia case management will be established by the Delphi method, and then the dementia case management information system will be constructed accordingly. In the second year, the investigators will conduct a pilot study to examine the effectiveness of the case management information system.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Dementia Case Managers:

  1. Be at least 20 years old and could communicate in Chinese or Taiwanese.
  2. Currently work for dementia center, dementia care center, or Community-Based Dementia Care Center in Taiwan.

• Dementia family caregivers:

  1. Be at least 20 years old and could communicate in Chinese or Taiwanese.
  2. Primary caregivers
  3. The people with dementia under care are diagnosed with dementia Clinical Dementia Rating(CDR) 0.5 or higher.
  4. Live in northern Taiwan(including Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, and Hsinchu).

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia Case Managers:

No longer working for dementia center, dementia care center, or Community-Based Dementia Care Center in Taiwan.

• Dementia family caregivers:

The people with dementia under care live in a long-term care facility or nursing home.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Information System Group

Experimental group

Description:

The dementia case managers in the experiment group use information system to perform case management.

Treatment:

Procedure: dementia case management information system