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Does a dementia workshop, delivered to residential care home staff, improve the wellbeing of residents with dementia?

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Dementia
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Registration Number
ISRCTN13641553
Lead Sponsor
niversity of East Anglia
Brief Summary

2023 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36624509/ (added 10/01/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
158
Inclusion Criteria

Residential care homes:
1. Residential care homes in Norfolk and Suffolk
2. Have residents with dementia.

Resident inclusion criteria:
1. Have dementia
2. Demonstrate capacity to consent to participate in the study or have a consultee who can inform a decision to include them in the study

Staff inclusion criteria:
1. Employed at residential care home and work on a full or part time basis and are employed in any role
2. Have a minimum of weekly face-to-face contact

Exclusion Criteria

Residential care home exclusion criteria:
1. Do not provide residential care for people with dementia
2. Only provide palliative care

Resident exclusion criteria:
Receiving palliative care.

Staff exclusion criteria:
1. Agency or bank staff
2. Work in a senior management position

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Care home resident well-being is measured as change in the mean Dementia Care Mapping Well/Ill being value (WIB), calculated as a mean score from up to six care home residents observed at baseline prior to randomisation and at ten weeks after randomisation
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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