Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease; Behavioral Symptoms; Agitation; Dementia
• Interventions: Other: Education and Supervision; Other: Control

• Registration Number: NCT01217541
• Lead Sponsor: Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Brief Summary

Dementia is a serious health problem showing an increasing prevalence rate with increasing age. In Norway, about 80% of nursing home patients have dementia. The mean age of nursing home residents in Norway is around 84 years. Disruptive and agitated behaviour affect 30-50% of all individuals with dementia at some point in the course of the illness. In addition, they have a combination of physical and psychological diseases which necessitates a close collaboration between different specialities in medicine and Old Age psychiatry. In collaboration with the communalities, our Old Age psychiatry services want to provide a new approach to this challenge and validate it on patient and personnel level.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-09
• Study First Submitted: 2010-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-10-07
• Study First Posted: 2010-10-08
• Primary Completion: 2012-03
• Study Completion: 2012-03
• Status Verified: 2014-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-12-11
• Last Update Posted: 2014-12-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 700

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients at nursing home units

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients that are in a final state and patients that have not been at the nursing home unit more than two weeks

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Education and supervision	Control	Personnel in nursing home units get intervention in form of education and supervision
Education and supervision	Education and Supervision	Personnel in nursing home units get intervention in form of education and supervision

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Life in Severe Dementia (QUALID), Person-Centred Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT, 2010)	12 months after baseline assessment	Evaluate a new model of collaboration between a specialized department of Old Age Psychiatry and nursing home units to optimize patient care and job satisfaction of the caregivers.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Nursing Home version, Cornell Scale of Depression in Dementia, Registration of Constraints (Kirkevold, 2004)	12 months after baseline assessment	In addition, we want to carry out a qualitative evaluation of the process of implementation of new scales and the effect of supervision on personnel and patients

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Lillehammer sykehjem; 🇳🇴 Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway