Changing Talk to Reduce Resistiveness to Care

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Resident; Behavioral: Staff

• Registration Number: NCT01324219
• Lead Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center

Brief Summary

The investigators are interested in reducing problem behaviors of nursing home residents with dementia that make providing care difficult. The investigators call these behaviors resistiveness to care. Previous research has found that resistiveness to care occurs more frequently when staff use certain types of communication. An inservice program will be provided to all nursing staff in your nursing home to teach staff about communication practices to reduce resistiveness to care. The research study will see whether changing communication will reduce resident resistiveness to care. If effective, the communication training may then be used to improve care in other facilities.

By doing this study, researchers hope to learn if changing communication practices will reduce resistiveness to care in nursing home residents with dementia.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-03
• Study First Submitted: 2011-03-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-03-25
• Study First Posted: 2011-03-28
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2016-06
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-10
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 202

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Resident	Resident	-
Staff	Staff	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the effects of the nursing staff communication - change in frequency and duration of resident Resistiveness to Care behaviors.	up to 6 months	Test the effects of the CHAnging Talk (CHAT) nursing staff communication intervention on reducing the frequency and duration of resident Resistiveness to Care (RTC) behaviors.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Calculate the costs of nursing staff communication system	up to 6 months	Calculate the costs of CHAT using traditional methods and assess its cost-effectiveness with innovative Data Envelopment Analysis.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Kansas, United States