Patient-Centered Dementia Care Practice Coaching Intervention
- Conditions
- DementiaAlzheimer Disease
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Coaching Group
- Registration Number
- NCT06249204
- Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare staff outcomes in long-term care communities who participate in the intervention versus those who do not. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Is employee satisfaction impacted by the intervention and 2. Is dementia care confidence impacted by the intervention. Participants will include monthly coaching visits for the intervention group and completion of surveys pre, immediately post and three-months post. Researchers will compare the intervention group to the control group to see if the intervention impacted the outcomes.
- Detailed Description
Over a six-month coaching program period, staff members from care communities work with a coach to assess their current level of adoption of Dementia Care Practice Recommendations (DCPR) (published recommendations by Alzheimer's Association) and prioritize areas of need /focus. Teams meet with the coach virtually or in person for 1 hour each month during the six months. Through an action planning and implementation process, care communities are guided to make organization-wide, measurable changes in the areas of (1) policies and procedures, (2) education and training, and/or (3) care practices to increase and maintain person-centered care practices as outlined in the DCPR. Coaches provide ongoing support to the care community through telephone and email support between meetings. Control group will not receive any coaching intervention but receive monthly email (e.g., newsletter about Alzheimer's Association but not related to outcomes) from coaches for check-in. Alzheimer's Association (AA) hires coaches in study areas based on their skills, experiences, interests and enthusiasm. Each coach identifies and invites long-term care (i.e., nursing home and assisted living) communities using existing relationships between the AA Chapter and those communities. In addition, AA staff will work with a national and/or state-wide networking group /association, as well as the Association's Dementia Care Provider Round Tables. The investigators will also pull the list of nursing homes in the study areas from publicly available data (e.g., Definitive Healthcare). Once each care community is selected and has agreed to participate, DCPR coaches will request that the care community identify 4-6 staff members to serve on a Care Team. The consented care communities are randomly assigned to either a control or intervention group (1: 1 block randomization).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 449
- Licensed skilled nursing facilities
- Licensed assisted living facilities
- Located in the state of Ohio
- Under the age of 18
- Without documented endorsement for participation from facility leadership
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Coaching Group Coaching Group The intervention group will be exposed to six coaching sessions (one a month for 6 months) as well as a nine month touch point to complete the 3-month post survey. This group will have access to a care community coach, resources and use these supports to create action steps towards adopting and implementing person-centered best practices based on an initial self-assessment of their current practices.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Employee Satisfaction pre, immediately post, and 3-month post Employee satisfaction was measured using the Centers for Medicare \& Medicaid Services (CMS)'s Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction Survey. This tool contains 5 topic areas, including job satisfaction (9 items), team building and communication (10 items), scheduling and staffing (4 items), training (6 items), and management and leadership (6 items). Participants will answer on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Average score overall and by topic areas will be calculated (range = 1 - 5), where a higher score indicates greater employee satisfaction.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Person-centered practices pre, immediately post, and 3-month post. Person-centered practices are measured using the Toolkit for Person-Centeredness in Assisted Living (workplace practices, individualized care and services, and caregiver-resident relationships domains). From this tool, three areas will be measured, including workplace practices (23 items), individualized care and services (8 items), and caregiver-resident relationships domains (7 items). Participants will answer on a 5-point scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Average score overall and by areas will be calculated, and then multiply the average scores by 25. Total scores overall and by areas range between 25 and 100, with a higher score representing more person-centeredness.
Dementia care confidence pre, immediately post, and 3-month post Dementia care confidence is measured using the Confidence in Dementia Scale (CODES) The nine-item self-report questionnaire is scored on a 5-point scale with anchored ratings of 'not able', 'slightly able', 'somewhat able', 'mostly able', 'very able'. Total score ranges from 9 to 45, with a higher score signifying better confidence in working with people with dementia.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Alzheimer's Association
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States