THE EFFECT OF REMOTE NURSING INTERVENTIONS BASED ON THE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS MODEL ON PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FAMILY CAREGIVERS

NCT ID: NCT07010874

Last Updated: 2025-12-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

In this study, it is planned to evaluate the effect of remote nursing interventions based on the empowerment model on individuals with dementia and family caregivers. It was designed as a mixed method research. It chose explanatory sequential mixed methods design as a mixed method type. The research will be conducted at the Alzheimer's Social Life Center affiliated to Ankara Metropolitan Municipality between June 01 and December 31, 2025. The quantitative part of the study was planned in a randomized controlled pretest-posttest (parallel) study design. The study will be conducted with 30 caregivers in the intervention group and 30 in the control group. Descriptive Information Form, Zarit Care Burden Scale, Caregiver Readiness Scale, Mini Mental Test and NPE - Neuropsychiatric Inventory will be used as data collection tools. The intervention period was determined as 10 weeks. Remote nursing interventions based on the model will be carried out through the web page named "Take Care of Yourself". Dementia patients and their relatives in the control group will continue to receive standard services provided by the Alzheimer Social Life Center. One week after the end of the intervention, the data collection tools will be applied again by the nurse at the center to the dementia patients and caregivers in both groups. Quantitative data will be evaluated using appropriate statistics in SPSS 23.0 package program. After the quantitative part of the study is completed, the qualitative part will be applied. The qualitative part was designed in a descriptive phenomenological design. In-depth individual interviews will be conducted with individuals who meet the inclusion criteria. A semi-structured interview form will be used in individual interviews. When it is decided that data saturation has been reached, the data collection phase of the research will be terminated. Data analysis will be carried out with the content analysis approach. The data will be analyzed using the MAXQDA 20 program. After the data collected from the qualitative and quantitative phases are analyzed separately, the findings of the two phases will be integrated in the interpretation phase.

Detailed Description

In the study, the intervention will be carried out in weekly sessions. A empowerment process model has been adopted to guide the intervention process. Prior to the study, a pilot study will be conducted at a different Alzheimer's Social Life Centre with dementia caregivers who meet the study participation criteria in order to test the usability of the developed website and determine the comprehensibility of the content of the training modules prepared for the maintenance process.

Conditions

Dementia of Alzheimer Type

Study Design

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

Study Groups

intervention

The intervention for this group will last 10 weeks and will be conducted in weekly sessions. The empowerment process model was adopted to guide the intervention process. Distance nursing interventions based on the model will be carried out through a web page called "Take Care of Yourself". Each participant will have a unique username and password so that their login details and frequency of visits to the website will be recorded. During the 10-week intervention period, caregivers will be provided with 8 modules of training content.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

REMOTE NURSING INTERVENTIONS BASED ON THE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS MODEL

Intervention Type: OTHER

The duration of the intervention is determined as 10 weeks. Distance nursing interventions based on the model will be carried out through a web page called "Take Care of Yourself". Each participant will have a unique username and password while using the website, so that login information and the frequency of visiting the website will be recorded. During the 10-week intervention period, caregivers will be provided with 8 modules of training content. In the first session of the intervention, the website will be introduced, personal goals will be set and the session will be completed with the planning of the next week. personal goals will be set, and in the last session of the intervention, feedback will be given to the individuals by the researcher regarding the achievement of their personal goals and their ability to cope with future difficulties.

control

Dementia patients and their relatives in the control group will continue to receive standard services provided by the Alzheimer's Social Life Center.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

REMOTE NURSING INTERVENTIONS BASED ON THE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS MODEL

The duration of the intervention is determined as 10 weeks. Distance nursing interventions based on the model will be carried out through a web page called "Take Care of Yourself". Each participant will have a unique username and password while using the website, so that login information and the frequency of visiting the website will be recorded. During the 10-week intervention period, caregivers will be provided with 8 modules of training content. In the first session of the intervention, the website will be introduced, personal goals will be set and the session will be completed with the planning of the next week. personal goals will be set, and in the last session of the intervention, feedback will be given to the individuals by the researcher regarding the achievement of their personal goals and their ability to cope with future difficulties.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Are 18 years of age or older,
• Are literate,
• Are able to use the internet,
• Have a close relative diagnosed with dementia related to Alzheimer's disease and are in the early stages of dementia (Mini Mental Test score between 19 and 24).
• Informal caregivers who have been providing care to a person with dementia for at least 6 months will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals with physical (vision and hearing impairments) or psychological (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, intellectual disabilities, etc.) conditions that prevent them from using the program,
• Caregivers of individuals with dementia diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, who also have a life-threatening illness (central nervous system infections, organic brain damage, COPD, cancer, etc.) that increases the care burden and are currently undergoing active treatment for this illness,
• Caregivers of individuals with dementia who live in long-term care facilities or multiple homes and do not have a primary caregiver will not be included in the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Gazi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Naile Bilgili

Prof

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Alzheimer's Social Life Center

Ankara, YENİMAHALLE, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

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Other Identifiers

GaziU-Aysun ERDAL

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id