Nu-DESC DK: The Danish Version of the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale

Completed

• Conditions: Delirium
• Interventions: Device: Nu-DESC DK

• Registration Number: NCT02628925
• Lead Sponsor: Naestved Hospital

Brief Summary

Delirium is one of the most common complications among elderly hospitalized patients, postoperative patients and patients on intensive care units. The reported prevalence is between 11 and 80 %. Delirium is associated with a high morbidity and threefold higher 6-month mortality. The Nursing-Delirium Screening Scale (Nu-DESC) is a screening tool with a high sensitivity and specificity.

The purpose of this study is to translate the Nu-DESC to danish and evaluate afterwards its feasibility and understanding by different medical staff.

Material and methods:

The Nu-DESC will be translated after International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) guidelines to Danish by permission of the original author.

The evaluation will be performed, by filling out evaluation forms, where the feasibility and understanding will be rated on a 6 step Likert scale.

Detailed Description

Translation of the original tool and evaluation of understanding and feasibility by medical staff.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09
• Primary Completion: 2015-02
• Study Completion: 2015-04
• Study First Submitted: 2015-11-27
• Status Verified: 2015-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-12-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-12-10
• Study First Posted: 2015-12-11
• Last Update Posted: 2015-12-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Medical staff working in the recovery room or orthopedic ward

Exclusion Criteria

• Medical staff from other wards

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Recovery room	Nu-DESC DK	10 medical staff working in the recovery room
Orthopedic ward	Nu-DESC DK	10 medical staff working on the orthopedic ward

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Difference in understanding of the content of Nu-DESC DK by different medical staff groups	Within the first week after questionnaire is filled out	All five sections of Nu-DESC DK will each be rated on a 6 step Likert scale regarding language and content.
Difference in feasibility of the content of Nu-DESC DK by different medical staff groups	Within the first week after questionnaire is filled out	All five sections of Nu-DESC DK will each be rated on a 6 step Likert scale regarding time and usability