Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support for Home Care Staff

NCT ID: NCT04788992

Last Updated: 2025-08-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 124 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-03-29
• Study Completion Date: 2021-10-31

Brief Summary

This study aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

Detailed Description

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

This two-group cluster randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

The dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

The interventional group will receive a dementia care training using dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

The control group will only receive dementia care e-books and peer support with no dementia virtual reality activity.

Both groups will be assessed for their dementia care knowledge, attitudes, care competence, work stress and empathy at baseline, month 3, and 6.

Conditions

Dementia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Intervention group

receive dementia care training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

Control group

receive dementia care training without virtual reality activity

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity

Interventions

Intervention group

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Control group

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age 20 to 65 years
• Taiwanese nationality
• had worked as a home care staff for at least three months
• had experience in providing home care for patients with dementia
• had a mobile phone or tablet and regular access to the internet

• can not provide informed consent.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Tzu Chi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Huei-Chuan Sung

Associate professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Huei-Chuan Sung, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Tzu Chi University

Locations

Mennonite Social Welfare foundation

Hualien City, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Other Identifiers

YLH-IRB-10815

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id