The MARQUE project: Managing agitation and raising quality of life to improve agitation for people with dementia in care homes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN96745365
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London (UK)

Brief Summary

2019 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30872010

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-09-11
• Study Completion: 2018-09-01
• Last Update Posted: 8 April 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 340

Inclusion Criteria

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

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified