Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care: Development, Implementation and Evaluation
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Dementia
- Sponsor
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
- Enrollment
- 428
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change of Dementia Care Knowledge
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change of Dementia Care Knowledge
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia(about 2 years)
- the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia(about 2 years)
- length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia(about 2 years)
- score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)(about 2 years)
- 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])
- score of Beck depression inventory(about 2 years)
- mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia(about 2 years)