E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 140
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,
- •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
排除标准
- •If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.
干预措施: e-training course (Other)
Intervention
E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.
干预措施: Support group (Other)
Control
Traditional classroom teaching course programs.
干预措施: traditional classroom teaching course programs (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 6 month
To evaluate the Maslach Burnout Inventory,, range from 0-72, higher values represent a worse outcome.
Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale
时间窗: 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.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Hsin Feng SU
Principal Investigator
Tzu Chi University