The clinical, social and cost effectiveness of a decision support tool to optimise community-based tailored management of sleep (TIMES) for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Dementias and Neurodegeneration; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN54015716
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Exeter

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-08-05
• Last Update Posted: 15 August 2022
• Study Completion: 2027-01-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 290

Inclusion Criteria

Ethnographic work:
1. GP Surgeries: We are aiming to recruit 6 sites in England with a purposeful target to work with one urban and one rural surgery, a single practice and a practice that is part of a network. When selecting GP surgeries, we will be mindful of population demographics and ethnicity to ensure we have an inclusive sample representation. The CRN will facilitate us in screening, approaching and recruiting GP sites.
2. Participants: Inclusion criteria for health professionals taking part in the ethnographic work is that they work within one of the collaborating GP sites and can provide fully informed consent for consultations to be observed. The inclusion criteria for patients is that they can provide informed consent/consultee assent for observations to be observed.

Focus Groups
3. Healthcare professionals: Any healthcare professional working in a participating GP site can take part in the focus groups (e.g. GP, nurse, pharmacist, dietitian physician associate).
4. PLWD/MCI: Individuals with a diagnosis of dementia or MCI who have been allocated a relevant ICD-10 SNOMED code.
5. Carers: Recruited through snowballing via PLWD/MCI participants.
There will be no exclusion for gender, age or ethnicity for healthcare professionals or PLWD/MCI/carers.

Survey
6. We seek responses from any healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, nurse associates, physician associates) who would deliver tailored primary care within the UK. We will use our existing network of professional contacts, including the Society Academic Primary Care partners, to distribute our invitation and the link to our survey widely.

There will be no exclusion for gender, age or ethnicity.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Ethnographic work: Observations with patients under 18 years of age.
2. Focus groups: Non-English speakers and formal carers in receipt of payment for their work.
3. Survey: Healthcare professionals outside the UK

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified