Validation of a Life Stories Methodologies in Long-Term Care Centres
NCT ID: NCT06569628
Last Updated: 2024-08-26
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Basic Information
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ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
NA
378 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2024-04-25
2027-04-30
Brief Summary
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From a positivist perspective of gerontological intervention, priority will be given to the validation of quantitative methodologies with empirical support. The study will involve 378 users residing in Galician long-term care centres for older adults. At the theoretical level, there is a broad consensus among professionals and experts on the need to develop new methodologies that allow the personalization of long-term care care and facilitate the development and promotion of the life projects of the older persons through the provision of the support that a particular person needs. In addition, there is a large body of practical interventions that attempt to apply these postulates. However, there is a clear lack of research methodologies that provide robust scientific results and data to support and evaluate these new developments.
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Detailed Description
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Narrative care and the methodology of incorporating biographies and life stories emerged in the context of long-term care centres for old-adults in response to the need to promote the deinstitutionalization of care and to advance in the transformation of the long-term care model towards a humanistic approach, and from the ethical and intervention proposal of person-centered care.
Putting this care approach into practice can be complex. In general, the traditional care model and seeing gerontological centers as "institutions" does not favor the implementation of person-centered care methodologies. Society, in general, and professionals in particular are faced with the challenge of promoting the search for solutions to care from a more human point of view in which the so-called "narrative care" takes center stage.
In this context, the need emerges to provide care professionals with new digital tools that facilitate the implementation of valuable methodologies such as life stories, the life project, the professional of reference and the support group, and develop proposals focused on favoring spaces for the creation and strengthening of bonds and meaningful relationships that promote the participation and social inclusion of the person in his/her environment and community, as a protective factor against unwanted loneliness in people in need of long-term care.
Furthermore, at the theoretical level, there is a broad consensus among professionals and experts on the need to develop new methodologies that allow the personalization of long-term care and facilitate the development and promotion of the life projects of the older persons through the provision of the support that a particular person needs. In addition, there is a large body of practical interventions that attempt to apply these postulates. However, there is a clear lack of research methodologies that provide robust scientific results and data to support and evaluate these new developments.
B. Problem or need to which it is intended to provide an answer.
This project jointly addresses the binomial long-term care-unwanted loneliness in long-term care centres for old-adults, betting on digitization as a key element in the search for solutions. The purpose is to advance the line of research in three main areas:
1. Narrative care and person-centered care
Person-centered care (PCC) proposes a paradigm shift in long-term care, placing people in need of care/support and their life projects at the center of organizations, at the backbone of their processes.
The life stories and the life project are advanced methodologies typical of person-centered care approaches that facilitate old-adults, in this case, are the axis around which the interventions and the day-to-day communications of the centers revolve.
The professionals who care for and/or accompany people have to understand life stories method as the essence of person-centered care and humanization. The experts argue that it is an inexcusable component of genuine person-centered care, a component that acquires meaning not only by virtue of its effectiveness and the practical benefits it implies, but also as an ethical imperative of care. It is a valuable tool that allows us to know and recognize the person, to respect and understand him or her better.
2. Unwanted loneliness
According to data from the survey on loneliness in older people conducted by La Caixa Foundation in 2018 in Spain, there is a higher prevalence of loneliness in institutionalized old adults than in the general population, with this prevalence being much higher.
Another noteworthy fact is the high prevalence of institutionalized old adults who indicate that their life is not satisfactory and/or they do not feel that they have a meaningful life.
In turn, most old adults feel unwanted loneliness throughout their lives, regardless of their living situation.
The experts point out that the main interventions to alleviate loneliness are aimed at: 1) direct interventions with the person, fostering social connections and helping to maintain those that already exist; 2) interventions in the environment, focused on developing appropriate structural facilitators in a close environment to help reduce loneliness and prevent it in people at risk of experiencing it.
3. Digitalization
This project will offer an essential digital solution that guides, facilitates and supports the implementation of life stories and life project methodologies, through which it intervenes in 3 key concepts: 1) Care (personalized attention); 2) Involvement (meaningful activities, promotion of the life project); 3) Unwanted loneliness (creating spaces for valuable interactions and meaningful relationships), from the approach of good practice in the incorporation of technology in the field of care (Liedo and Ausín, 2022).
C. Objectives
The general objective is to empirically support the implementation methodology of narrative care by incorporating biographies and life stories in the context of long-term care with old adults, professionals and families, validating the effects of the program in centres.
The proposal would have two main specific objectives:
1. To review the empirical evidence on digital applications in PCC concepts.
1.1. Care (personalization, personalized care) (Incorporation of biography into care).
1.2. Involvement (Meaningful activities) (Promoting life project)
1.3. Unwanted loneliness (relationships, bonds, community) (Create spaces for valuable interactions and meaningful relationships).
2. To validate the effects of the application of narrative care through the incorporation of life stories and biographies, in long-term care centres for old adults, by means of a randomized clinical trial.
2.1. To validate the cognitive effects of the application in long-term care centres for old adults.
2.2. To validate the functional impact of the application in long-term care centres for old adults, through the facilitation of participation in daily life and in their community and the promotion of new illusions, goals or dreams to be fulfilled.
2.3. To validate the effects at the affective level of the application in long-term care centres for old adults, through the promotion of emotional connection and the promotion of meaningful relationships.
2.4. To validate the effects on social support of the application in long-term care centres for old adults, through the activation of meaningful relationships, the strengthening of bonds and relationships of trust, encouraging family participation in care and improving communication patterns.
2.5. To assess the perception of professionals on the use of the resources deployed through the intervention methodology.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NON_RANDOMIZED
FACTORIAL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Intervention group in Long-term Care Centres for old adults
This group participates directly in the incorporation of narrative care through the implementation of life stories and biographies (Envita Stories Methodology) in the long-term care centres for old adults in where they reside, through the specific workshops and by preparing their own life stories
Envita Stories Methodology in Long-term care Centres for old adults
Collaborative intervention program in long-term care Centres for old adults between professionals, old adults, families and volunteers that aims to foster person-centered care and promote meaningful relationships through the digitization of life stories and life project methodologies in a timeline.
Contact group in long-term care Centres for old adults
This group participates indirectly, through the implementation of the Envita Stories Methodology in the long-term care centres for old adults in which they reside but not in them directly
Contact Methodology in Long-term Care Centres for old adults
Professionals know and use Envita Stories Methodology but do not apply it directly with these people.
Control group in Long-term care centres for old adults
This Group resides in a long-term care centres for old adults in which the methodology is not being implemented, although it will be implemented throughout the project process
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Envita Stories Methodology in Long-term care Centres for old adults
Collaborative intervention program in long-term care Centres for old adults between professionals, old adults, families and volunteers that aims to foster person-centered care and promote meaningful relationships through the digitization of life stories and life project methodologies in a timeline.
Contact Methodology in Long-term Care Centres for old adults
Professionals know and use Envita Stories Methodology but do not apply it directly with these people.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria: N/A
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Agencia Gallega de Innovación (GAIN)
UNKNOWN
Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia-Spain
UNKNOWN
DomusVi, long-term care centres for old adults
UNKNOWN
Envita Digital Solutions S.L.
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Locations
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Faculty of Psychology of the University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Envita Digital Solutions S.L.
Vigo, Pontevedra/Galicia, Spain
Countries
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References
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Villar F, Serrat R. [Talk to them: Narrative care within a person-centered care framework]. Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2017 Jul-Aug;52(4):216-222. doi: 10.1016/j.regg.2016.06.004. Epub 2016 Jul 25. Spanish.
Kitwood T, Bredin K. Towards a theory of dementia care: personhood and well-being. Ageing Soc. 1992;12:269-87. doi: 10.1017/s0144686x0000502x. No abstract available.
Costa NP, Polaro SH, Vahl EA, Goncalves LH. Storytelling: a care technology in continuing education for active ageing. Rev Bras Enferm. 2016 Nov-Dec;69(6):1132-1139. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0390. English, Portuguese.
Stargatt J, Bhar S, Bhowmik J, Al Mahmud A. Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Systematic Review. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jan 12;24(1):e28113. doi: 10.2196/28113.
Subramaniam P, Woods B. Digital life storybooks for people with dementia living in care homes: an evaluation. Clin Interv Aging. 2016 Sep 16;11:1263-1276. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S111097. eCollection 2016.
Gately ME, Muccini S, Eggleston BA, McLaren JE. Program Evaluation of My Life, My Story: Virtual Storytelling in the COVID-19 Age. Clin Gerontol. 2022 Jan-Feb;45(1):195-203. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2021.1931610. Epub 2021 Jul 5.
Rios Rincon AM, Miguel Cruz A, Daum C, Neubauer N, Comeau A, Liu L. Digital Storytelling in Older Adults With Typical Aging, and With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Literature Review. J Appl Gerontol. 2022 Mar;41(3):867-880. doi: 10.1177/07334648211015456. Epub 2021 May 19.
Other Identifiers
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03_IN606D_2023_ 2529780
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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