The MARQUE project: Managing Agitation and Raising QUality of Life: Cluster RCT to improve agitation for people with dementia in care homes

niversity College London (UK)0 个研究点目标入组 340 人开始时间: 2014年9月11日最近更新: 2019年4月8日

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•Care homes inclusion criteria:
•1. The minimum number of residents required for a home?s inclusion in the study have dementia (17)
•2. Care home is willing to be randomised
•3. Care home will commit to allow mandatory training sessions, training staff champions to continue implementation (two per home to take account of possible staff turnover) and changing management procedures, to integrate the new techniques into care
•4. Care home will commit to approaching residents and relatives
•5. No plans to close over the following year
•Inclusion criteria for paid carers:
•1. Paid carer who provides face to face care for residents, at least some of whom have dementia.
•2. Carer willing to complete the questionnaires about residents with dementia whom they know well
•3. Carer willing to answer questions about their own coping
•Inclusion criteria for residents with dementia:
•1. Dementia diagnosis according to Noticeable Problems Checklist or known dementia diagnosis
•Inclusion criteria for family carer:
•1. Identifies themselves as the primary family carer for a resident in the home who either consents to the study or if the resident does not have capacity to consent to the study then the family carer has agreed that they will be in the study
•2. See their relative with dementia at least monthly

•Exclusion criteria for care homes:
•Less than 70% of the staff consent to the study after the care home manager has agreed to the study but before randomisation.

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niversity College London (UK)