Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Other: e-training course; Other: traditional classroom teaching course programs; Other: Support group

• Registration Number: NCT03822286
• Lead Sponsor: Tzu Chi University

Brief Summary

This study evaluate the effects of three-month dementia care e-training and mentoring support program on home-care workers using a two-group randomized controlled trial.

Detailed Description

Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many training courses for home care staff are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs.

An innovative evidence-based online training with peer support program in dementia care was developed and consists of online cloud platform with various training courses and resources, on-the-job mentoring support by senior peers, and social networking in dementia care.

They can access to the online cloud platform by computers or smart phones anytime for immediate access to information in dementia care. They can also consult with senior peers for care problems by social network platform and attend monthly dementia care forum.

The interventional group attendance staff will accept 3-month e-training care online course, which was supervised by the supervisor and participated in the monthly counseling mentoring support group. The control group will accept the traditional dementedness care traditional classroom teaching course and will not accept any e-training .

The curriculum and counseling support group will collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, care abilities, work stress and burnout of the two groups in the pre-test, 3rd and 6th months and learn about their effectiveness.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2019-01
• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-01-27
• Study Start: 2019-01-30
• Study First Posted: 2019-01-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-08-30
• Study Completion: 2019-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

Inclusion Criteria

• Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,
• Literacy
• Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese,
• Caring for community clients with cognitive impairment or dementia
• Willing to participate in the study and provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	e-training course	E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.
Control	traditional classroom teaching course programs	Traditional classroom teaching course programs.
Intervention	Support group	E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale	6 month	To evaluate the staff care for knowledge of patients with dementia, range from 0-50, higher values represent the higher the care knowledge.
Approach to Dementia Questionnaire	6 month	To evaluate the staff care for Dementia care attitude, range from 19-95, higher values represent the more positive the attitude of the caregiver to dementia care.
Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale	6 month	To evaluate the staff care for demented patients, range from 16-68, higher values represent Staff have good care ability.
Maslach Burnout Inventory	6 month	To evaluate the Maslach Burnout Inventory,, range from 0-72, higher values represent a worse outcome.
Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale	6 month	The main purpose is to measure the working pressure situation. The scale has a total of 38 questions, eight faces, each facing the score range of 0-100 points. The higher the score, the greater the work pressure.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

HsinFeng,Su; 🇨🇳 Hualien city, Taiwan