Seen as a person; evaluation of a person-centred tablet intervention to promote the social interaction between people with dementia, family and professional caregivers
- Conditions
- Dementia
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON25910
- Lead Sponsor
- VU University medical center / Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute
- Brief Summary
Publications on the protocol and results of the study will be published in scientific and professional journals.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 90
People with dementia whose score range from 4-6 (moderate to severe dementia) on the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS), and have been admitted to the nursing home for at least 1 month.
Their family carers: willing to provide information on the interests of the person with dementia and willing to participate in the study themselves as well.
Primary professional care providers of the included persons with dementia: willing to be trained into and deliver the intervention and to be a part of the study themselves
People with mild (GDS 3) or very severe dementia (GDS>6) and people with very severe loss of hearing or Eyesight will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method People with dementia: Social interaction (during intervention) measured with INTERACT (Baker & Dowling 1995), and quality of life measured with QUALIDEM (Ettema et al., 2007), experience of being seen as a person (single question)<br>Family carers: Sense of competence measured with Short Sense of Competence questionnaire (Vernooij-Dassen et al., 1999)<br>Professional carers: Empathy measured with Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983), Attitude towards dementia with Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (Lintern et al., 2000),
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method People with dementia: Mood (during intervention) measured with Smiley Face Assessment Scale (Van Weert et al., 2005) and neuropsychiatric symptoms with NeuroPsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (Kaufer & Cummings, 2000; De Jonghe e.a., 2003).<br>Family carers: Feeling known as a family carer in the nursing home, satisfaction about stay of person with dementia in nursing home (single questions)<br>Professional caregivers: learning to know the person with dementia better (single question)