Does a dementia workshop, delivered to residential care home staff, improve the wellbeing of residents with dementia?
- Conditions
- DementiaMental 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
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
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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method