Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Other: education; Other: education and workshop

• Registration Number: NCT04262973
• Lead Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop an interprofessional education and practice model for acute care related to dementia and evaluate its effectiveness of implementation.

Detailed Description

The researchers will recruit participants from a medical center (experimental group) and two regional hospitals (control group) in southern Taiwan. Both the experimental group and the control group will contain 150 healthcare professionals and 64 patients with dementia. Both of the groups will receive a six-hour dementia care course. Then, only the experimental group will receive a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences. The evaluation of outcomes will include the analyses of healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of dementia care. The evaluation times are to be before and after the dementia care course and after the six months of interprofessional practice. The other evaluation of outcome is comparison of the outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia between the two groups before the interprofessional education workshop and after the interprofessional practice.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Study First Submitted: 2020-02-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-02-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-06
• Study First Posted: 2020-02-10
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-10
• Study Start: 2020-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-07-31
• Study Completion: 2023-07-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 428

Inclusion Criteria

• healthcare professionals having worked for 3 months or more
• emergency/hospitalized patients with dementia
• patients diagnosed dementia
• scoring 1 or more in Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR).

Exclusion Criteria

• healthcare professionals working in obstetrics, pediatrics, outpatient, or hemodialysis.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
control group	education	The control group will only receive six-hour dementia care course.
experimental group	education and workshop	The experimental group will not only receive six-hour dementia care course, but also a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of Dementia Care Knowledge	Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]	testing the change of professionals' Dementia Care Knowledge. The minimum value of this scale is 0, and the maximum value is 16.; Higher scores mean having better Dementia Care Knowledge.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)	about 2 years	testing behavioral symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia
Change of dementia self-efficacy scale	Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]	testing professionals' dementia self-efficacy. The scale has not developed yet. It will be developed and test the reliability and validity in this study.
score of Beck depression inventory	about 2 years	testing psychological symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia
mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia	about 2 years	understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital; 🇨🇳 Kaohsiung city, Taiwan