Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support for Home Care Staff

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Other: Intervention group; Other: Control group

• Registration Number: NCT04788992
• Lead Sponsor: Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

This study aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

Detailed Description

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

This two-group cluster randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

The dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

The interventional group will receive a dementia care training using dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

The control group will only receive dementia care e-books and peer support with no dementia virtual reality activity.

Both groups will be assessed for their dementia care knowledge, attitudes, care competence, work stress and empathy at baseline, month 3, and 6.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-04
• Study First Posted: 2021-03-09
• Study Start: 2021-03-29
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-30
• Study Completion: 2021-10-31
• Status Verified: 2022-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-01
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 124

Inclusion Criteria

• age 20 to 65 years
• Taiwanese nationality
• had worked as a home care staff for at least three months
• had experience in providing home care for patients with dementia
• had a mobile phone or tablet and regular access to the internet

Exclusion Criteria

• Home care staff who do not meet the inclusion criteria
• can not provide informed consent.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Intervention group	receive dementia care training
Control group	Control group	receive dementia care training without virtual reality activity

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale	6 months	To evaluate care staff's competence of caring for people with dementia, range from 16-68
Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale	6 months	To evaluate care staff's knowledge of dementia, range from 0-50
Jefferson Scale of Empathy	6 months	To evaluate care staff's level of empathy toward patients, score range from 20-140
Approach to Dementia Questionnaire	6 moths	To evaluate care staff's attitude toward Dementia, range from 19-95

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Simple Work Stress Scale	6 moths	To evaluate level of work stress of care staff

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mennonite Social Welfare foundation; 🇨🇳 Hualien City, Taiwan