Personalized Management of Psycho-behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease: Impact on Health Resources Use

NCT ID: NCT04820127

Last Updated: 2024-08-02

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

668 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-10-14

Study Completion Date

2024-10-14

Brief Summary

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The present project propose to study the effectiveness of a personalized care management of psycho-behavioral symptoms based on an evidence-based standardized assessment to identify and understand the underlying causes of psycho-behavioral symptoms followed by a personalized intervention based on targeted and prioritized actions. This personalized intervention is proposed both to Alzheimer disease (AD) patients living at home with agitation-type psycho-behavioral symptoms, and also to their caregivers with the support and coordination of a nurse working in collaboration with the specialist physician and the General Practitioner (GP). News technologies are used to enhance the follow-up, based on telehealth, and caregiver training.

The project hypothesize that, for a vulnerable population at risk (AD patient with agitation and their caregivers) living at home, a personalized intervention, carried out and coordinated by a nurse in close collaboration with the specialist and GP, would reduce hospitalizations and have a positive effect on the disease evolution and caregiver distress. Also this personalized intervention could reduce the cost of care, in particular by reducing the costs associated with hospitalizations and informal help.

Detailed Description

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PERSON-AL is a multicentric, interventional, open-label, randomized, parallel-group, stratified by centre, study comparing two arms: usual care versus intervention (personalized care preceded by a standardized assessment)

Principal Objective : To evaluate the impact of a personalized intervention for the management of agitation due to psycho-behavioral symptoms on the use of scheduled and unscheduled hospitalizations at 18 months in patients with AD and related disorders.

Secondary Objectives:

A- To evaluate the impact of a personalized intervention at 18 months on:

For the patient:

1. Unscheduled hospitalizations,
2. Severity of agitation symptoms,
3. The frequency and severity of emerging psycho-behavioral symptoms, other than agitation,
4. Prescription of psychotropic drugs,
5. Quality of life.

For the caregiver:
6. Distress related to psycho-behavioral symptoms,
7. All causes hospitalizations,
8. Quality of life.

B- Evaluate the medico-economic impact of this personalized intervention, and in particular:

1. Its efficiency compared to usual management by means of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses, from the community perspective and over a time horizon of 18 months,
2. The actual cost of patient's standardized assessment and personalized management
3. The use of care and associated costs for the caregiver and the efficiency of caregiver targeted intervention.

Conditions

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Alzheimer's Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control (usual care)

Patients in the control group will benefit from the usual care with a half-yearly visit by the specialist physician (geriatrician, neurologist or psychiatrist) according to AD French national management guidelines (HAS 2011 and HAS 2018).

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention (personalized care program)

Patients in the intervention group will benefit from personalized care preceded by a standardized assessment

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

personalized care preceded by a standardized assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

* personalized intervention plan (PIP) proposed to the patient/caregiver dyad to correct potentially reversible causes of psycho-behavioral symptoms. This PIP will be re-evaluated and adapted at each visit by the nurse in close collaboration with the GP;
* PIP implementation will be based on a close follow-up during the 18 months follow-up coordinated by the nurse (3 memory consultation visits, 3 home visits (with the GP) and 6 phone calls). This follow up will be enhanced with the use of a web platform (allowing teleconsultation, tele-expertise and telemonitoring);
* specific training on psycho-behavioral symptoms for caregivers at baseline and during follow-up will be performed. On line training on psycho-behavioral symptoms management for GP will be available;

Interventions

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personalized care preceded by a standardized assessment

* personalized intervention plan (PIP) proposed to the patient/caregiver dyad to correct potentially reversible causes of psycho-behavioral symptoms. This PIP will be re-evaluated and adapted at each visit by the nurse in close collaboration with the GP;
* PIP implementation will be based on a close follow-up during the 18 months follow-up coordinated by the nurse (3 memory consultation visits, 3 home visits (with the GP) and 6 phone calls). This follow up will be enhanced with the use of a web platform (allowing teleconsultation, tele-expertise and telemonitoring);
* specific training on psycho-behavioral symptoms for caregivers at baseline and during follow-up will be performed. On line training on psycho-behavioral symptoms management for GP will be available;

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

For the patient :

* Diagnosed with major neuro-cognitive disorders (DSM V) at all severity stages.
* Leaving at home
* Assisted by a caregiver, from patient's family or personal environment, assuming most of patient care (spending at least 6 hours per week with the patient)
* caregiver available to come with the patient to study visits as planned per protocol
* existing agitation since at least one month (according to International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) criteria)
* agitation severity ≥ 2 , based on Clinician Global Impression of Severity (CGI-S) (at least mild severity)
* the patient, his/her family member/trusted person , or his /her legal responsible has provided written informed consent to participate in the study
* referring physician's oral approval obtained for patient participation in the study
* Affiliated to French Healthcare System

For the caregiver:

* Has provided his/her written informed consent to participate in the study
* Ability to understand and speak French properly, ability to complete the questionnaires and assess the patient.
* Affiliated to French Healthcare System

Exclusion Criteria

For the patient:

* Agitation symptoms attributable either to other concomitant prescriptions, or to other psychiatric or evolving somatic diseases.
* Patient living in a residential care facility or having an institutionalization project within 6 months
* Patient with clinically significant or unstable disease that could affect he/her ability to come for the study visit or complete the evaluations planned as per protocol
* Concomitant participation to any other interventional research study
* Patient under legal protection.

For the caregiver:

* Caregiver under legal protection.
* Limited internet access or caregiver feeling unable to use it
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Toulouse

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Maria SOTO, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital Toulouse - Gerontopole

Locations

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CH d'Albi

Albi, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CH de Cahors

Cahors, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Carcassonne Hospital

Carcassonne, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHI Castres Mazamet

Castres, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CH Lannemezan

Lannemezan, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CH Lavaur

Lavaur, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Limoges university hospital

Limoges, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Lyon University Hospital

Lyon, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CH Montauban

Montauban, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Narbonne Hospital

Narbonne, , France

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Perpignan Hospital

Perpignan, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHI Val d'Ariège

Saint-Girons, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Toulouse University Hospital (CHU de Toulouse)

Toulouse, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

University Hospital Toulouse - Neurology department

Toulouse, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CH de Bigorre

Vic-en-Bigorre, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

HNO-Franche-sur-Soâne

Villefranche-sur-Saône, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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MARIA SOTO, MD

Role: CONTACT

5 61 77 70 49 ext. +33

Elodie LESTIME

Role: CONTACT

5 61 77 84 16 ext. +33

Facility Contacts

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Carine CHIFFRE, MD

Role: primary

05 63 47 48 56 ext. +33

David DOMBROWSKI, MD

Role: primary

05 65 20 54 83 ext. +33

Frédérique NATHAN-BONNET, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Marie-Noëlle Cufi, MD

Role: primary

05 63 71 62 91 ext. +33

Jean-Pierre SALLES, MD

Role: primary

Françoise DESCLAUX, MD

Role: primary

Achille TCHALLA, MD

Role: primary

Pierre KROLAK-SALMON, MD

Role: primary

Aurélie Roustan, MD

Role: primary

05.63.92.81.31 ext. +33

Geneviève BARNIER-FIGUE, MD

Role: primary

Lawrence Bories, MD

Role: primary

05 61 03 33 91

Maria SOTO, MD, Ph D

Role: primary

Jérémy PARIENTE, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Yannick Gasnier, MD

Role: primary

05 62 54 70 15 ext. +33

JULIEN VERNAUDON, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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RC31/19/0555

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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