Bath Machine on Sleep Quality in Nursing Home

NCT ID: NCT03251274

Last Updated: 2020-03-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 7 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-09-05
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-31

Brief Summary

The study is divided into two stages, the purposes of the first stage are (1) to examine the feasibility and simplicity of the operation of bathtub machine for nurse aides; (2) to examine the safety and comfortability of the bathtub machine from the perspectives of the nurse aides. The purposes of the second stage are (1) to understand the experiences of nurse aides and the elderly with disability by using the bathtub machine(which has edde massage function); (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of using the bathtub machine on the sleep quality and body temperature in the elderly with disability.

Detailed Description

The trends of bath disability in elderly consistently increased and, enhance, the demand of helping bath for the elderly also increased in Taiwan. Bathing is an important item of activities of daily living for human. Bathing not only keeps the body clean but also makes body comfort. Some studies showed that taking hot (40-40.5°C) baths 1.5 - 2 hours before bedtime resulted in a significant increase slow wave sleep (SWS) in the early part of the sleep period and improving sleep continuity in older female insomniacs.

Nurse aides are one of important human resource for long-term care institution. In Taiwan, Chao et al. reported that nurse aides had long-term accumulating discomfort over neck, shoulders and lower back during helping disable residents to carry out activity daily life. However, the body discomfort in nurse aides significantly decreased by using auxiliary equipment during assisting the elderly to carry out activity daily life. Therefore, it is important to use auxiliary equipment to prevent injury during work for nurse aides.

This study is interested in applying edde massage bathtub to improve sleep quality for disable residents in long-term care institutions. The study is divided into two stages, first stage of the study is to train nurse aides to use the bathtub machine (which has edde massage function) and solicits the opinions of nurse aides about factors related to the accessibility and safety of bath-tub machine using focus group methods. The purposes of the first stage study are (1) to examine the feasibility and simplicity of the operation of bathtub machine for nurse aides; (2) to examine the safety and comfortability of the bathtub machine from the perspectives of the nurse aides.

Second stage of the study is to explore the experiences of nurse aides and disabled elderly by using the bathtub machine. The purposes of the second stage study are (1) to understand the experiences of nurse aides and the elderly with disability by using the bathtub machine(which has edde massage function); (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of using the bathtub machine on the sleep quality and body temperature in the elderly with disability.

Conditions

Sleep

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

machine bathing group

structured machine bathing for 20-min duration at evening.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

machine bathing

Intervention Type: OTHER

machine bathing 20-min duration at evening

traditional bathing group

traditional bathing at evening.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

traditional bathing

Intervention Type: OTHER

traditional bathing

Interventions

machine bathing

machine bathing 20-min duration at evening

Intervention Type: OTHER

traditional bathing

traditional bathing

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• More than half a year in the institution
• 18 years of age (including) or above, with the help of bathing
• Be conscious, able to listen, speak Chinese

Exclusion Criteria

• Acute illness
• Diabetes
• Peripheral blood vessels or neurological diseases
• Mental disorders
• Sleep apnea
• Long-term hemodialysis

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

China Medical University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Chung-Liang Lai

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Locations

Taichung Hospital

Taichung, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Other Identifiers

CMUH105-REC3-138

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id