ESCAPE Study : Validation of a Specific Tool Scoring Residents at Risk of Escaping/Elopement From Nursing Homes (ESCAPE)

• Conditions: Elopement or Escaping of Nursing Home Resident With or Without Dementia

• Registration Number: NCT03662464
• Lead Sponsor: Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Brief Summary

Residents' escapes occur even if most of the nursing homes (NH) have set up specific devices to prevent from this risk. Therefore, the need to develop and validate a specific tool to assess the risk of escaping was obvious to the working group, aim at emphasizing patient centered-care by the nurses' staff and help to develop personalized devices.

Aim of the study: develop and validate a specific tool to score the risk of escaping in NH residents Study design: Observational prospective multicentered cohort study Nursing homes volunteer to participate Location: Provence Alpes Cotes d'Azur Region ( South East of France) Population: 4050 NH residents. Duration: two years, each resident included is followed up for one year Measures: Nursing homes characteristics, residents characteristics ( social and from medical record); Escape Scale (25 items with a Yes/no answer; filled up during a nurses staff meeting for each resident and every three months; 3 sub scales: resident environmental items, social items, and medical items.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-08-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-09-06
• Study First Posted: 2018-09-07
• Study Start: 2018-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 2018-10-04
• Primary Completion: 2020-10
• Study Completion: 2021-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4050

Inclusion Criteria

• Every resident of Nursing home participating to the study
• Living in the NH for three months or more
• With a living prognosis longer than 3 Months

Exclusion Criteria

• Prognosis less than three months
• Bedridden (not able to move alone from bed to chair)
• Nursing home short stay scheduled < 3 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Escape/elopement occurence	2 years	Each Event occurrence is notify by the nurses staff at any time

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Direction Recherche clinique et Innovation; 🇫🇷 Marseille, Paca, France