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Education Program for Care Home Staff

NCT04445077 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2020-06-24

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Summary

The competence of care home staff in dementia care is highly influential to the quality of care that adversely affects both people living with dementia and staff and in Mainland China where knowledge on dementia among care home staff was generally poor and this area is under-researched. This study aims at developing a competency-based culturally-sensitive education program on dementia care for care home staff through literature review, qualitative study. And then a quasi-experiment design without random assignment will be conducted to evaluate the effects of this program on care home staff's sense of competence, knowledge, attitudes, and care approach related to dementia care and staff satisfaction with the intervention. Focus group interviews will be conducted to understand participants' experience about the education program after the intervention. This study is expected to provide an effective way to improve care homes staff's competence in dementia care thereby improve the quality of care.

Conditions

  • Dementia

Interventions

OTHER

Dementia Competence Education for care home setting

The intervention is a competency-based education program for care home staff who provide dementia care in Mainland China.

OTHER

Printed educational materials

The educational materials will be delivered to the participants in the control group for their self-study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-06-30
Primary Completion
2020-10-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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