Investigating the implementation of education with a focus on person-centered communication in homecare services targeting nursing assistants

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Competence development by implementing a training intervention in person-centered communication, aimed at nursing assistants working within in-home care for older people; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN64890826
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Borås

Brief Summary

2023 Protocol article in https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03831-3 (added 27/02/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 13 March 2023
• Study Completion: 2025-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 325

Inclusion Criteria

Nursing assistants:
1. Permanent employment
2. Understand and speak Swedish

Older persons receiving in-home care:
1. 65 years or older
2. Understand and speak Swedish
3. No cognitive impairment

Exclusion Criteria

Participants not able, or willing, to give their written informed consent to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Person-centred communication measured with audio recordings of communication during home care visits collected at baseline (e.g. before education) and after education (e.g. 8 weeks later), and analysed and coded by sequences of empathic statements and responses to emphatic opportunities, emotional communication and degree of person-centeredness:<br> 1.1. Emphatic and emotional communication defined according to empathic opportunities, described by Suchman et al. and their model of emphatic communication<br> 1.2. Emotional communication coded by the Verona Coding Definitions on Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES)<br> 1.3. Degree of person-centered communication coded by the Roter Interaction of Analysis (RIAS)<br> The coding will be made by two independent coders after training, and interrater reliability will be calculated with Cohen’s kappa coefficient or with Pearson correlation analysis.<br>