Significant Activities in the Integrated Person-centered Care Model

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Old Age; Dementia; Old Age; Debility
• Interventions: Other: meaningful activities; Other: other activities

• Registration Number: NCT06623864
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Burgos

Brief Summary

The increasing life expectancy and global aging population necessitate changes in long-term gerontological services based on Person-Centred Care approaches. This study aims to improve Person-Centred Care in geriatric centers through meaningful activities and the role of occupational therapists and direct care professionals in developing these activities. A descriptive cross-sectional quasi-experimental design was proposed, with 10 participants.

Detailed Description

Background: Increasing life expectancy means that the ageing of populations globally is on the rise. It is therefore important to promote changes in long-term gerontological services based on Person-Centred Care approaches, in which meaningful occupation serves as a basis and is supported by appropriate professional support, such as the occupational therapist and the direct care professional.

Objective: To improve Person-Centred Care in a geriatric centre, through the use of meaningful activities and to identify the role of the occupational therapist and direct care professional in the development of these activities.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional quasi-experimental pre-post single-group design is proposed. A total of 10 participants. The methodology used will be mixed. The data collection techniques and tools will be the PDC evaluation instrument pre and post intervention and a survey at the end of the project.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-09
• Study Start: 2024-09-24
• Study First Submitted: 2024-09-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-09-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-09-30
• Study First Posted: 2024-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-02
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-20
• Study Completion: 2025-01-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• That the direct care worker has a degree as a nursing assistant, dependency care technician, geroculturist or certificate of professionalism.
• The worker must speak and understand Spanish.
• The residence must offer service during the day, in the morning or afternoon shift.
• Workers must have been with the department for more than 4 months.

Exclusion Criteria

• Workers who work night shift only.
• Workers on rotating shifts in all departments of the residence.
• Workers absent at the time of the study due to temporary leave, vacations or other causes.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
single group	meaningful activities	The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 10 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.
CONTROL GROUP	other activities	The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 10 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Kruskal-Wallis test	3 months	To compare the medians of the groups
Spearman's correlation coefficient	3 months	This measure allows us to determine the strength and direction of the association between the variables

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Olalla Saiz Vazquez; 🇪🇸 Burgos, Spain