Optimized pain management in dementia - OSD project - Dealing with challenging behaviors in the OSD project
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F03Unspecified dementia
- Registration Number
- DRKS00024000
- Lead Sponsor
- Zentrum für Altersmedizin Helios Klinikum Bonn Rhein/Sieg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 109
Inclusion Criteria
Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) = 24, at least a 4-day length of stay at one of the three intervention departments and showed signs of challenging behaviour (at least one of the 12 possible symptoms according to NPI-Q)
Exclusion Criteria
>24 MMSE (No cognitive impairment), lack of consent, lack of legal guardian in advanced dementia, thus no capacity to consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reduction of challenging behaviour, as measured by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), in the post-intervention group compared to the pre-intervention group within the observation period of 4 days.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Use of non-pharmacological treatments <br>- Consumption of analgesics, antipsychotics, sedatives and antidepressants <br>before and after the introduction of the STI.<br>