Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease; Behavioral Symptoms; Agitation; Dementia

• 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

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