Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Sykehuset Innlandet HF
- Enrollment
- 700
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Quality of Life in Severe Dementia (QUALID), Person-Centred Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT, 2010)
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Factorial
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Quality of Life in Severe Dementia (QUALID), Person-Centred Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT, 2010)
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Nursing Home version, Cornell Scale of Depression in Dementia, Registration of Constraints (Kirkevold, 2004)(12 months after baseline assessment)
Investigators
Sverre Bergh
Research Director Centre for Old Age Psychiatric Research
Sykehuset Innlandet HF