Prevention in care: CAM Treatments in Nursing Homes for the Elderly - a Prospective, Controlled, Cohort Study
- Conditions
- Health and quality of life of employees and residents of nursing homes.
- Registration Number
- DRKS00005049
- Lead Sponsor
- Zentrum für Qualität in der Pflege
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 285
employees:
Minimum age 18, General professional experience as a nurse or therapist> 1 year, written informed consent in the present
residents:
Minimum age 60, written informed consent for participation in the present study (in the case of legal services in addition the consent of the legal guardian present)
In addition, for Group 1: Regular use (at least 2x/month) of Kneipp measures for at least 3 months
Employees: Care Management, severe chronic or acute physical or mental illness, which do not provide a survey of the planned outcome parameters, participation in another interventional study
Residents: Severe chronic or acute physical or mental illness, which do not provide a survey of the planned outcome parameters, german care levelIII and/or Barthel index <30, participation in another interventional study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Since this is an exploratory observational study, a primary outcome measure was not defined.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The following outcomes were defined:<br>residents:<br>- Life skills using Barthel Index and NOSGER (survey at baseline, 6 and 12 months)<br>- Cognition by Mini Mental Status Examination (survey at baseline and 12 months<br>- Quality of life means Qualidem (survey at baseline, 6 and 12 months)<br>- Health-related quality of life using SF-12 (baseline, 6 and 12 months)<br><br><br>employees:<br>- Psychosocial stress in the workplace by COPSOQ<br>- Ability to work by WAI<br>health-related quality of life using SF-12<br>- Stress by CPSS<br> All questionnaires will be assessed at baseline, after 6 and 12 months