Effects of the COTID (Community Occupational Therapist in Dementia) Program and Usual Occupational Therapy Care on Recurrence of Falls At 12 Months in Elderly People with Neurocognitive Disorders Who Had Been Hospitalized for Falls, After Their Return Home

NCT ID: NCT06237218

Last Updated: 2024-12-16

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

76 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-07-29

Study Completion Date

2027-03-08

Brief Summary

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This project will enable optimization of specific carried out by occupationist for older adults discharged from hospital for falls:

* on the environmental dimension at the participant's home
* on the involvement of the caregiver since they are also involved in the care of the patient
* on the recurrence of falls and rehospitalizations in order to improve the quality of life by reassuring the elderly person when traveling
* on limiting loss of autonomy and staying at home. The occupational therapist will entrust the caregiver with a support role. The participant will feel more involved in the participant's care (thus reducing the feeling of helplessness). His actions will allow him to strengthen his sense of competence and will prevent him from physical and psychological exhaustion.

Detailed Description

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Falls constitute the greatest cause of loss of autonomy among people aged over 65 and are often the cause of injuries leading to hospitalization and therefore significant costs. Additionally, people who have fallen before are at greater risk of falling again. People aged 65 and over with dementia fall 3 times more than people without the condition. The physical and psychological consequences of these falls in patients with dementia accelerate their loss of autonomy and ultimately lead to admission to an institution.

Occupational therapy assessment in the patient's home is an effective approach to reducing falls in the general population. Indeed, the occupational therapist's care consists of carrying out a complete assessment to highlight the links that exist between a person and their abilities, their occupations in the broad sense and the environment in which their occupations take place. The occupational therapist then proposes a personalized intervention plan (objectives and means) and follow-up which may consist of the installation of technical and technological aids, home design, advice and information for people and their caregivers.

The COTID (Community Occupational Therapist in Dementia) program is a tool for describing the stages of an occupational therapy program based on evidence (scenario-based), according to a systemic approach focused on older people with dementia and their caregivers. This has been validated and widely used in the Netherlands since 2009. Indeed, it has shown its effectiveness in terms of successfully keeping elderly people with dementia at home but also in preventing the risk of caregiver burnout. through systemic care for the couple.

Conditions

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Nervous System Diseases

Keywords

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Dementia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Double-blind randomised controlled trial
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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COTID program

The intervention takes place entirely in the homes of elderly people with neurocognitive disorders.

It takes an average of 10 hours of intervention per treatment, spread over 5 to 10 weeks.

The COTID program is divided into several phases:

* Phase A: Problem definition and analysis
* Phase B: Formulation of objectives and treatment plan
* Phase C: Implementation of the treatment plan.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

COTID program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

COTID is a support program for people with Alzheimer's disease, designed to help them remain at home, including their primary caregiver.

Routine care

Patient's needs without a COTID program.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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COTID program

COTID is a support program for people with Alzheimer's disease, designed to help them remain at home, including their primary caregiver.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male or female, at least 75 years old
* Living at home (excluding nursing home or long-term care facilities)
* Hospitalized for fall
* Presenting major mild to moderate dementia (MMSE \> 16)
* Accompanied by a caregiver with sufficient presence to meet study procedures: at investigator's discretion at the investigator's discretion
* Having given free, informed and written consent signed by the patient
* Whose caregiver has given free, informed consent written and signed by him/herself
* Affiliated or beneficiary of social security

Exclusion Criteria

* With serious, life-threatening pathology(ies) or in palliative care
* Participating in an educational fall program on the theme of falls, run by an occupational therapist by an occupational therapist
* Receiving regular occupational therapy treatment on the day of inclusion (day care daily hospitalization)
* Participating in a clinical research protocol have an impact on the occurrence of a fall (at the investigator's discretion)
* Not matching with the fall definition from Kellogg's definition of a fall (loss of consciousness, sudden onset of paralysis paralysis or epileptic seizure)
* Presenting a very significant post-fall syndrome:

score of 4/4 on the "Get-up early" questionnaire

* unable to read or write
* Participant under legal guardianship (curator, guardian, legal protector)
* Dementia with rapid neurocognitive degeneration degeneration with frontal and language impairment (at the investigator's discretion).
Minimum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Limoges

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Chu Limoges

Limoges, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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Manon BOUTEAUD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 05 55 05 65 81

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Manon BOUTEAUD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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87RI21_0009_ErgoFallsPilote

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id