Consumer Directed Care in residential aged care: Transforming care staff practices through the Resident at the Centre of Care (RCC) training program

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Quality of life; Residential aged care; Staff wellbeing; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618000779279
• Lead Sponsor: Swinburne University of Technology

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-05-09
• Last Update Posted: 10 March 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1326

Inclusion Criteria

Resident participants: older than 65 years and has lived in the RACF for more than three months.

Staff participants: all staff employed to work at the RACF.

Exclusion Criteria

Residents: acute medical illness likely to compromise participation in the program; inability to effectively communicate due to no English language or severe dementia (PAS score = 16 or higher)

Staff: staff contracted to work in the RACF (i.e. self-employed or employed by another organisation).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Resident quality of life as assessed by the Quality of Life-AD (QoL-AD; Edelman et al., 2005), aged care adaptation. This measure was designed for participants diagnosed with Alzeihmer's Disease but is also suitable for use with healthy participants. In this study, this measure will be used for all resident participants, regardless of level of cognitive function.[Baseline (i.e. pre-intervention), 3 months post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention [primary timepoint], and 12 months post-intervention.]