The Model and Effect Assessment of Training General Practitioner for Dementia Early Recognition

NCT ID: NCT02782000

Last Updated: 2017-12-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 162 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-08-12
• Study Completion Date: 2017-07-18

Brief Summary

With the number of aged people increasing and the lifespan lengthen, dementia is becoming a great public challenge in China. Early recognition of dementia is crucial to improve the prognosis of dementia patients and decrease the society disease burden. It is a pity that the early recognition rate of dementia is less than 7% in China. Most of the aged people live in the community and general practitioners (GP) in community provide health service much more frequently than other medical workers. It is suggested that GPs should be the best one to screen dementia in its early period. However, most of GPs have not receive any training about dementia early recognition in China. It is imperative and meaningful to provide training to GPs for improve GPs' knowledge and skills about dementia early recognition. How to train GPs for early recognizing dementia and how about the training effect? Which training model may be better? We did not find consistent conclusion about these questions in China. This study aims to set up an effective and convenient model to training GPs in dementia early recognition. A total of 152 GPs in Beijing will be enrolled and be randomly divided into two groups. One group will firstly have lessons about dementia early recognition and then receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 6 months. Another group will firstly have lessons about dementia early recognition and then receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 3 months. The score of knowledge and attitude about dementia early recognition, the accuracy of analyzing dementia cases, the usage of dementia screening scales and the referral rate of dementia will be evaluated at different time point respectively. This study will provide evidence for training GPs effectively in dementia early recognition in the future and will promote dementia early recognition in community.

Conditions

Dementia

Keywords

dementia; early recognition; general practitioner; training

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Long-term supervision group

Firstly, this group will having lessons about dementia early recognition. Second, this group will receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 6 months.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

lessons,long-term supervision and message

Intervention Type: OTHER

Short-term supervision group

Firstly, this group will having lessons about dementia early recognition. Second, this group will receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 3 months.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

lessons,short-term supervision and message

Intervention Type: OTHER

Interventions

lessons,long-term supervision and message

Intervention Type: OTHER

lessons,short-term supervision and message

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• General practitioner on-the-job and providing outpatient service
• Can complete the intervention and questionnaire;
• Providing informed consent voluntarily.

Exclusion Criteria

• General practitioner who may take a long-term vacation during the study
• Providing less than once outpatient service every week;
• Having no condition to use Wechat;
• Refuse to join in this study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Peking University Sixth Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Xiaozhen LV

Assistant Researcher

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Xiaozhen LV, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Peking University Six Hospital

References

Lv X, Zhao M, Li T, Yuan C, Zhang H, Pu C, Li Z, Zhang N, Yu X, Wang H. Effects of an Enhanced Training on Primary Care Providers Knowledge, Attitudes, Service and Skills of Dementia Detection: A Cluster Randomized Trial. Front Neurol. 2021 Jul 23;12:651826. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.651826. eCollection 2021.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 34367045 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

SF2016-4-4116

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id