Education Program for Enhancing Healthcare Students' Attitudes Toward People Living With Dementia

NCT ID: NCT06122623

Last Updated: 2025-11-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-11-22

Study Completion Date

2024-07-30

Brief Summary

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The aim of this single-arm pre-post study is to examine the effectiveness of gaming-based dementia educational programs for enhancing healthcare students' attitudes toward people living with dementia (PLWD). The main questions we intend to answer follow:

* What are the attitudes toward PLWD, intentions to help PLWD, knowledge of dementia, and stigma of PLWD before and after participation in the gaming-based dementia education program?
* What is the effect of gaming-based dementia education programs on enhancing attitudes toward PLWD?

Participants will volunteer for the class education program, which will last about 90 minutes. Participants can attend the class only once. This education program based on gaming tools will be structured with a lecture on dementia, N-impro (gaming tools), and bad/good short dramas. The gaming education program will be included in dementia-related courses.

Detailed Description

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Participants in this study will be healthcare students at an Indonesian university (i.e., nursing students, public health students, etc.) enrolled in the semesters and courses designated for implementation of this educational program. For example, nursing students at Airlangga University will be among students in their fifth semester. Prospective participants will be given new ID numbers to ensure that their student ID numbers are undetected. The protocol for this study was reviewed and approved by an ethical committee of the Faculty of Nursing at Airlangga University.

Regarding recruitment, all candidate participants will be identified from the university's e-learning portal data. Students registered in the courses selected for implementation of this education program will have their data recorded at the beginning of the odd semester for the 2023/2024 academic year. Potentially eligible candidates will receive comprehensive study information and an invitation to participate.

The courses coordinator and Principal Investigator (PI) will explain the Semester Learning Plan and curriculum for the selected courses at the beginning of the semester. An overview of the research session's implementation will be presented, while detailed research procedures will be explained shortly before research is undertaken. An announcement regarding implementation of the research will be made approximately one week in advance, and recruitment will be carried out through Google Forms. Candidate participants will receive new IDs for this study and information about the schedule and location of the educational program through a class announcement three days prior.

On the intervention date, candidate participants will be present at the designated location and sign an attendance sheet using their new IDs. The PI will explain all stages of the study and reiterate regarding participants' freedom to withdraw at any time. The recruitment of study participants will not involve coercion. Students who choose not to participate in this study will still receive regular dementia-related materials through the university's e-learning portal, but they will not receive the game-based education program. Students who agree to participate in the study will provide informed consent. Further, participants in the educational program will complete a questionnaire before and after its implementation.

Conditions

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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A single-arm pre-post approach will be employed in this study;

There will be no control group. All participants will receive the same treatment. The intervention to be used will be a gaming education program conducted once with each participant.

Group Type OTHER

Health Education

Intervention Type OTHER

As previously mentioned, the intervention for this study will be a gaming education program that will be conducted once with each participant. Implementation of the program will occur at different times. Each performance will include a maximum of 60 participants who will be divided into small groups within the same room. Seven to 10 participants will comprise a small group, and each group will have one facilitator. The facilitator will be either a member of the research team or a Health lecturer who will be recruited and trained by the Japanese and Indonesian research teams.

Interventions

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Health Education

As previously mentioned, the intervention for this study will be a gaming education program that will be conducted once with each participant. Implementation of the program will occur at different times. Each performance will include a maximum of 60 participants who will be divided into small groups within the same room. Seven to 10 participants will comprise a small group, and each group will have one facilitator. The facilitator will be either a member of the research team or a Health lecturer who will be recruited and trained by the Japanese and Indonesian research teams.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Healthcare students enrolled in the designated semester and courses that align with the program's implementation
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Tokyo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Kawasaki City College of Nursing

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universitas Airlangga

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dianis Wulan Sari

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Dianis Wulan Sari, Ph.D

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universitas Airlangga

Locations

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Universitas Airlangga

Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Site Status

Countries

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Indonesia

References

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Fraboni, M., Saltstone, R., & Hughes, S. (1990). The Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA): An Attempt at a More Precise Measure of Ageism. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 9(1), 56-66.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Lane AP, Yu FCH. Person-centered attitudes mediate the association between dementia knowledge and help-giving intentions in Singapore. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Mar;32(3):413-414. doi: 10.1017/S1041610219000796. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31309909 (View on PubMed)

Blay SL, Toledo Pisa Peluso E. Public stigma: the community's tolerance of Alzheimer disease. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;18(2):163-71. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181bea900.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 20104072 (View on PubMed)

Brannelly T. Sustaining citizenship: people with dementia and the phenomenon of social death. Nurs Ethics. 2011 Sep;18(5):662-71. doi: 10.1177/0969733011408049.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 21893577 (View on PubMed)

Harada, K., Sugisawa, H., Shibata, H., Yamada, Y., & Sugihara, Y. (2004). Measurement and Correlates of Ageism Among Japanese Young Men Living in Urban Areas. The Gerontologist, 44(Special_Issue_I), 1-672.

Reference Type RESULT

Kim, K., & Kuroda, K. (2011). Factors related to attitudes toward people with dementia: Development Attitude Toward Dementia Scale and Dementia Knowledge Scale. Bulletin of Social Medicine, 28(1), 43-56 (in Japanese).

Reference Type RESULT

Malta S, Doyle C. Butler's three constructs of ageism in Australasian Journal on Ageing [corrected]. Australas J Ageing. 2016 Dec;35(4):232-235. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12363. No abstract available.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 27933747 (View on PubMed)

Matsumoto H, Igarashi A, Sakka M, Takaoka M, Kugai H, Ito K, Yamamoto-Mitani N. A Two-Step Model for Encouraging the General Public to Exhibit Helping Behaviors Toward People Living With Dementia. Innov Aging. 2022 Apr 14;6(3):igac023. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igac023. eCollection 2022.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 35663276 (View on PubMed)

Stites SD, Milne R, Karlawish J. Advances in Alzheimer's imaging are changing the experience of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2018 Mar 19;10:285-300. doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2018.02.006. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 29780873 (View on PubMed)

Sari DW, Kugai H, Igarashi A, Takaoka M, Matsumoto H, Suzuki H, Wu J, Fitryasari R, Nasifah IA, Has EMM, Yamamoto-Mitani N. Education Program for Enhancing Health Care Students' Attitudes Toward People Living With Dementia: Protocol for a Single-Arm Pre-Post Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Sep 18;13:e62654. doi: 10.2196/62654.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39293050 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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UAirlangga

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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