Exploring How Health Care Support Workers Respond to Distressed Behaviour in People With Dementia

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Dementia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07257263

2425.RCHT.44

Details and patient eligibility

About

• To provide a narrative description of healthcare support workers experiences of responding to distressed behaviours in people with dementia
• To explore how these experiences might guide future training needs

Enrollment: 6 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthcare support workers
• Working in a ward-setting caring for people with dementia
• Based in the main acute hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Registered staff (nurses and nursing associates)
• Allied Health Professionals and therapy support workers
• Healthcare support workers employed outside the main acute hospital

Trial design

6 participants in 1 patient group

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