Nu-DESC DK: The Danish Version of the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale

Naestved Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Delirium

Treatments: Device: Nu-DESC DK

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02628925

DHAG-001-2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

Delirium is one of the most common complications among elderly hospitalized patients, postoperative patients and patients on intensive care units. The reported prevalence is between 11 and 80 %. Delirium is associated with a high morbidity and threefold higher 6-month mortality. The Nursing-Delirium Screening Scale (Nu-DESC) is a screening tool with a high sensitivity and specificity.

The purpose of this study is to translate the Nu-DESC to danish and evaluate afterwards its feasibility and understanding by different medical staff.

Material and methods:

The Nu-DESC will be translated after International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) guidelines to Danish by permission of the original author.

The evaluation will be performed, by filling out evaluation forms, where the feasibility and understanding will be rated on a 6 step Likert scale.

Full description

Translation of the original tool and evaluation of understanding and feasibility by medical staff.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical staff working in the recovery room or orthopedic ward

Exclusion criteria

• Medical staff from other wards

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

Recovery room

Description:

10 medical staff working in the recovery room

Treatment:

Device: Nu-DESC DK

Orthopedic ward

Description:

10 medical staff working on the orthopedic ward

Treatment:

Device: Nu-DESC DK