Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

NCT ID: NCT03822286

Last Updated: 2019-02-01

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

140 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-01-30

Study Completion Date

2019-09-30

Brief Summary

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This study evaluate the effects of three-month dementia care e-training and mentoring support program on home-care workers using a two-group randomized controlled trial.

Detailed Description

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Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many training courses for home care staff are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs.

An innovative evidence-based online training with peer support program in dementia care was developed and consists of online cloud platform with various training courses and resources, on-the-job mentoring support by senior peers, and social networking in dementia care.

They can access to the online cloud platform by computers or smart phones anytime for immediate access to information in dementia care. They can also consult with senior peers for care problems by social network platform and attend monthly dementia care forum.

The interventional group attendance staff will accept 3-month e-training care online course, which was supervised by the supervisor and participated in the monthly counseling mentoring support group. The control group will accept the traditional dementedness care traditional classroom teaching course and will not accept any e-training .

The curriculum and counseling support group will collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, care abilities, work stress and burnout of the two groups in the pre-test, 3rd and 6th months and learn about their effectiveness.

Conditions

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

e-training course

Intervention Type OTHER

Home care staff received mainly self-study, you can download e-books on your lithography or personal mobile phone reading and learning, with lively animation, sound and video guide home staff Learn the knowledge of demented care. The e-book course sets out the themes of the eight demented care training courses.

Support group

Intervention Type OTHER

A counseling master mix 8\~10 resident staff members, through the counselor to lead the symposium to the case home to implement technical guidance and through the set of social network groups to immediately discuss the care and solutions of dementia cases, and hold once a month in gathering, about 40\~60 minutes each time.

Control

Traditional classroom teaching course programs.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

traditional classroom teaching course programs

Intervention Type OTHER

Home care staff received the traditional demented care traditional classroom teaching course and did not accept any e-training and gathering.

Interventions

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e-training course

Home care staff received mainly self-study, you can download e-books on your lithography or personal mobile phone reading and learning, with lively animation, sound and video guide home staff Learn the knowledge of demented care. The e-book course sets out the themes of the eight demented care training courses.

Intervention Type OTHER

Support group

A counseling master mix 8\~10 resident staff members, through the counselor to lead the symposium to the case home to implement technical guidance and through the set of social network groups to immediately discuss the care and solutions of dementia cases, and hold once a month in gathering, about 40\~60 minutes each time.

Intervention Type OTHER

traditional classroom teaching course programs

Home care staff received the traditional demented care traditional classroom teaching course and did not accept any e-training and gathering.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,
* Literacy
* Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese,
* Caring for community clients with cognitive impairment or dementia
* Willing to participate in the study and provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Tzu Chi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Hsin Feng SU

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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HsinFeng SU, MSN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Tzu Chi University

Locations

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HsinFeng,Su

Hualien City, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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HsinFeng SU, MSN

Role: CONTACT

886980313695

Huei Chuan Sung, PhD

Role: CONTACT

88638572158 ext. 2213

Facility Contacts

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Role: primary

886980313695

References

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Su HF, Koo M, Lee WL, Sung HC, Lee RP, Liu WI. A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study. BMC Geriatr. 2021 Feb 16;21(1):126. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02075-3.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33593287 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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YLH-10721

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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