Stool Ritual: Impact on the Number of Nights Without Stools Among Dependent Residents in Institutions for Dependent Elderly People

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-07-21

Study Completion Date

2019-10-15

Brief Summary

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As they age, the intestinal elimination function can be altered by external factors. Sleeping is also a vital need for maintaining health. Sleep time varies with age (from 18h / day for an infant to 7h30 on average for an adult) and sleep disorders increase with age (INSERM source). In our study, the night is from 9 pm to 7 am, corresponding to the working hours of the night shift. Between 42% and 50% of episodes of wakefulness of more than 4 minutes in EHPAD are due to noise, light or the practice of care related to incontinence. 87% of all incontinence care practices have been associated with wake-up episodes. A personalized day care program would allow residents to improve the quality of their sleep by minimizing stools at night and therefore interventions by caregivers.

The ritual of stools, can be defined as the set of rules to observe to defecate in good physiological, physical conditions:

* Be in a suitable place for intestinal elimination: personal bathroom preferably on the toilet or on a pierced chair that will perhaps be more secure and comfortable with the armrests. The position to be taken is important.
* Propose a small bench to put under the feet to raise the knees higher than the hips and increase the abdominal pressure.
* Preserve the visual and auditory intimacy of the resident at the time of defecation. Failure to do so may result in the person repressing his desire to defecate.
* Allow the resident the time needed on the toilets the doorbell at hand and with the assurance that the caregiver will come back in a short time. Do not press it and do not forget it, privilege the autonomy and check that there is toilet paper.

The establishment of the stool ritual is not intended to reduce the amount of stool by day, but it aims to postpone the nighttime exemption on the day, and does not prevent the stool emission to other times of the day or night.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Homes for the Aged Intestinal Elimination

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

At the end of the first 4 weeks of collection of the data on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident, a randomization will be carried out dividing the patients according to the following groups:

1. / Experimental group Implementation period: From the stool diary: - determine the stool profile of each resident over 1 week (W5)
2. / Control group: without modification of practices and without data collection from W5 to W6.

At the end of this second period, data were collected on an individual stool diary in each of the two groups for 4 weeks

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Ritual of stool

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start the implementation period of ritual of stool. From the stool diary: - will be determined the stool profile of each resident over 1 week and application of the ritual of stool the following week At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Ritual of stool

Intervention Type OTHER

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start the implementation period of ritual of stool. From the stool diary: - will be determined the stool profile of each resident over 1 week and application of the ritual of stool the following week At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Usual practice

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start 2 weeks without data collection. Patient will be follow in usual practice.

At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Group Type OTHER

Usual practice

Intervention Type OTHER

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start 2 weeks without data collection. Patient will be follow in usual practice.

At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Interventions

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Ritual of stool

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start the implementation period of ritual of stool. From the stool diary: - will be determined the stool profile of each resident over 1 week and application of the ritual of stool the following week At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual practice

During the first 4 weeks, data will be collected on an individual stool diary with usual care of the resident After randomization will start 2 weeks without data collection. Patient will be follow in usual practice.

At the end of this second period, data will be collected on an individual stool diary in for 4 weeks

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Dependent elderly people living in institutions for elderly dependents.
* GIR 1 or 2
* Residents being able to sit in a seated position on a pierced chair or a safe toilet.
* Residents who have lived in the institution for at least 1 month in order to limit the biases due to the change of place of life

Exclusion Criteria

* Residents with the physical and cognitive abilities to go to the toilet alone wisely.
* Residents with stomies
* Residents with a history of intestinal occlusion
* Residents participating in another study.
* Residents under guardianship or safeguard justice

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No