Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Other: education; Other: education and workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04262973

KMUHIRB-SV(1)-20170070

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop an interprofessional education and practice model for acute care related to dementia and evaluate its effectiveness of implementation.

Full description

The researchers will recruit participants from a medical center (experimental group) and two regional hospitals (control group) in southern Taiwan. Both the experimental group and the control group will contain 150 healthcare professionals and 64 patients with dementia. Both of the groups will receive a six-hour dementia care course. Then, only the experimental group will receive a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences. The evaluation of outcomes will include the analyses of healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of dementia care. The evaluation times are to be before and after the dementia care course and after the six months of interprofessional practice. The other evaluation of outcome is comparison of the outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia between the two groups before the interprofessional education workshop and after the interprofessional practice.

Enrollment: 428 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthcare professionals having worked for 3 months or more
• emergency/hospitalized patients with dementia
• patients diagnosed dementia
• scoring 1 or more in Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR).

Exclusion criteria

• healthcare professionals working in obstetrics, pediatrics, outpatient, or hemodialysis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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428 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will not only receive six-hour dementia care course, but also a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences.

Treatment:

Other: education and workshop

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will only receive six-hour dementia care course.

Treatment:

Other: education