Targeted Interdisciplinary Model for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Home Care Services

NCT ID: NCT04034680

Last Updated: 2020-09-29

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-02-01

Study Completion Date

2020-06-30

Brief Summary

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Continuity of care in home care services is necessary to facilitate the assessment and treatment of persons with dementia and cognitive failure. TIME (Targeted Interdisciplinary Model for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms) is a multi-component intervention with a biopsychosocial approach, based on the theoretical framework of cognitive behavioral therapy and person-centred care. The trial is designed to assess the effects of TIME on Neuropsychiatric symptoms for persons (NPS) with dementia in home care services.

Detailed Description

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The Targeted Interdisciplinary Model for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (TIME) is a multi-component intervention with a biopsychosocial approach, based on the theoretical framework of cognitive behavioral therapy and person-centred care. TIME consists of a manual based multicomponent program which includes a rigorous assessment, treatment, and the evaluation of neuropsychiatrc symptoms (NPS).

The cluster RCT will contain two parallel groups, where randomisation is performed based on clusters. One municipality is one cluster, randomized to receive either the intervention with TIME or a brief two hours education-only intervention about dementia and NPS for the control group. Totally 10 municipalities will be included. Data will be collected at baseline before randomisation and at the end of the implementing phase. Measurements at patient level are taken at baseline prior to randomization and after 6 months. The primary outcome measure is difference in change between the intervention group and the control group from baseline to follow up at 6 months in the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD).

Data collection will be performed by project nurses recruited outside the home care services. They will interview the staff or family members who knows the patient best. The assessors will be blinded to the randomization of the home care services. Interviews will be done by telephone or face-to-face, depending on what is best for the person interviewed.

After the intervention focus group interviews with staff and family members will be conducted.

Conditions

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Cluster randomized trial
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Participants will be masked for the study arm they are randomised to. Staff in the home care service are aware of the study arm their patients are in, while assessors that will interview home care staff by telephone are masked for study randomisation.

Study Groups

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Home care services - Intervention group

Totally 5 municipalities (25 persons with dementia) will be included in the intervention group, and will receive training in the TIME model. This includes two hours of lectures about dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) and three hours of training and roleplay in using the TIME model. The staff of the home care service will receive the TIME manual and access to the TIME website with access to additional educational and information files. From each municipality, three staff members, called TIME administrators, will receive additional three hours of lectures and roleplay in TIME, and will thereafter have the responsibility for performing the intervention.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

TIME

Intervention Type OTHER

The intervention of the TIME model includes two hours of lectures about dementia and NPS and three hours of training and roleplay in using TIME. The staff of the home care service will receive the TIME manual and access to the TIME website with access to additional educational materials. From each municipality, three staff members called TIME administrators, will receive additional three hours of lectures and roleplay in TIME, and will thereafter have the responsibility for performing the intervention.

Home care services - Control group

Totally 5 municipalities (25 persons with dementia) will be included in the Control group. The municipalities in the control group will receive the same two hours lectures about dementia and NPS as the intervention group. After the cluster RCT pilot study is ended, municipalities in the control group will receive the same three-hour lessons in the TIME as the intervention group of municipalities.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Education-only intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Staff in the home care service in municipalities in the control group will receive thesame two hours lectures about dementia and NPS as the intervention grorp. After the cluster RCT pilot study is ended, municipalities in the control group will receive the same three-hour lessons in the TIME as the intervention group of municipalities.

Interventions

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TIME

The intervention of the TIME model includes two hours of lectures about dementia and NPS and three hours of training and roleplay in using TIME. The staff of the home care service will receive the TIME manual and access to the TIME website with access to additional educational materials. From each municipality, three staff members called TIME administrators, will receive additional three hours of lectures and roleplay in TIME, and will thereafter have the responsibility for performing the intervention.

Intervention Type OTHER

Education-only intervention

Staff in the home care service in municipalities in the control group will receive thesame two hours lectures about dementia and NPS as the intervention grorp. After the cluster RCT pilot study is ended, municipalities in the control group will receive the same three-hour lessons in the TIME as the intervention group of municipalities.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Dementia, defined as a score of 1 or more on the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR)
* A minimum of 15 minutes of home care services per day for the last 4 weeks
* NPS, defined as a score on the NPI-NH affective subsyndrom (NPI depression + NPI anxiety) of 12 or more
* Informed consent from the participant or family or next-of-kin

Exclusion Criteria

* Terminal disease
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sykehuset Innlandet HF

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sverre Bergh, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Research centre for Age-related Functional decline and Disease (AFS)

Locations

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The Research centre for Age-related Functional decline and Disease (AFS) at Innlandet Hospital Trust

Ottestad, , Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

Other Identifiers

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SI0303150608

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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