Cognitive Stimulation for people with dementia in long-term inpatient care: Development and piloting of a 24-hour approach using a mixed-methods study desig

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Recruiting

• Conditions: F00; F01; F02; F03; Dementia in Alzheimer disease; Vascular dementia; Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere; Unspecified dementia

• Registration Number: DRKS00024381
• Lead Sponsor: Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies, Medizinische Fakultät und Uniklinik Köln, Universität zu Köln

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-07-14
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 88

Inclusion Criteria

People with dementia: Residents (or their representatives) of the participating long-term care facilities; people with a clinically confirmed dementia diagnosis or third-party assessment by nursing or care staff with the Dementia Screening Scale (DSS) score = 3 points; being able to be interviewed; signed written informed consent; good or sufficiently corrected vision and hearing; good German language skills;

Nursing and care staff: Nursing professionals or caregivers who participate in the training and use the cognitive stimulation program in their daily work; among the nursing professionals, permanent employees who work in day and/or night care should be considered; the caregivers should be professionally trained persons, e.g. employees of the social service such as social pedagogues, social workers, gerontologists and additional caregivers according to SGB XI; good or sufficiently corrected vision and hearing; good German language skills;

Facility managers/nursing service managers: Management of an inpatient nursing facility in which the intervention is being piloted; position as (deputy) nursing service manager or facility manager; good or sufficiently corrected vision and hearing; good German language skills.

Exclusion Criteria

People with dementia: lack of dementia diagnosis; lack of ability to give consent; life-threatening illnesses;

Nursing and care staff: less professionally trained staff as well as volunteers should not be considered; all other employees of the inpatient geriatric care facility;

Facility managers/nursing service managers: Outpatient and day-care facilities; facilities for disabled persons (SGB IX).

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Effectiveness: global cognition of people with dementia (operationalized with MMST and ADAS-Cog; time points of measurement: pre-training of nursing and care staff, post-training/pre-intervention, post-intervention); feasibility of the intervention approach of the whole training and intervention phase (10 weeks training + 6 weeks intervention); process evaluation of the entire implementation phase (facility managers, nursing service managers, nursing and care staff, people with dementia) of the whole training and intervention phase (10 weeks training + 6 weeks intervention).<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life of people with dementia (self-assessment and proxy rating with the QoL-AD); depression of people with dementia (self-assessment and proxy rating with the GDS and the CDS); psychiatric and behavioral symptoms of people with dementia (proxy rating with the NPI-NH); work-related quality of life and stress experience of nursing and care staff (self-assessment with the RCB-Related Distress Index); time points of measurement: pre-training of nursing and care staff, post-training/pre-intervention, post-intervention)