A Pilot Study to Evaluate Educational Programs to Improve Fecal Incontinence Care in Nursing Homes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Fecal Incontinence; Staffs' Attitudes
• Interventions: Behavioral: Educational and counselling program; Behavioral: Educational program

• Registration Number: NCT01939821
• Lead Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

The investigators are planning to do a cluster randomized trial to test the effect of different educational programs for staff according to nursing home patients FI (fecal incontinence). Since there are very few published trials of treatment of FI in older people, and no rigorously evaluated studies on interventions for FI in nursing homes, or rigorously evaluated continence education program for staff concerning continence care, a pilot study is necessary. The aim for the pilot study is to evaluate feasibility, acceptability and adherence according to the educational intervention, methods used and outcome measures. This is designed to be an external pilot study. External pilot studies are small scale versions of the main study which are not intended to be part of the main study. The pilot intervention period is 3 month.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-04
• Study Start: 2013-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-09-06
• Study First Posted: 2013-09-11
• Primary Completion: 2014-01
• Study Completion: 2014-04
• Status Verified: 2017-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-25
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Nursing homes Wards with 24 hour long term care residency, similar nurse/patient ratio and General Practitioner consultancy, comparable patient groups according to frailty, comparable ward size according to number of patients and staff.
• Patients All patients on long term residency (1 month or more) are eligible for measurements.
• Registered nurses (RN) and authorized social educators (ASE) RN's and ASE's with position above 50% are eligible according to participation in the educational meeting and to be recruited as a local opinion leader in intervention 2. All staff is invited to the educational outreach meetings throughout the intervention period.

Exclusion Criteria

• Nursing homes with diverse staff and patient composition
• Patients on short term residency
• Registered nurses (RN) and authorized social educators (ASE) RN's and ASE's with position less than 50%

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Educational and counselling program	Educational and counselling program	In addition to educational meeting and printed educational material the investigators will include the use of local opinion leaders and educational outreach
Educational program	Educational program	The investigators want to organize the educational meetings as an interactive workshop that target knowledge, attitudes, and skills at the individual healthcare professional/peer group level.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The proportion patients assessed by the clinical guidelines	3 months	90% of the patients assessed by the clinical guideline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of completed patient health questionnaires	3 months	Response rate more than 80%
Acceptable performance of multiple choice test measuring change in staff knowledge.	3 months	80% claim that the test set understandable and relevant
The proportion of missing data in each completed questionnaire	3 months	Less than 10%

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sør-Trøndelag University College; 🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway