A Pilot Study to Evaluate Feasibility of Educational Programs With Regard to Good Fecal Incontinence Care in Nursing Homes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The proportion patients assessed by the clinical guidelines
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators are planning to do a cluster randomized trial to test the effect of different educational programs for staff according to nursing home patients FI (fecal incontinence). Since there are very few published trials of treatment of FI in older people, and no rigorously evaluated studies on interventions for FI in nursing homes, or rigorously evaluated continence education program for staff concerning continence care, a pilot study is necessary. The aim for the pilot study is to evaluate feasibility, acceptability and adherence according to the educational intervention, methods used and outcome measures. This is designed to be an external pilot study. External pilot studies are small scale versions of the main study which are not intended to be part of the main study. The pilot intervention period is 3 month.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Nursing homes Wards with 24 hour long term care residency, similar nurse/patient ratio and General Practitioner consultancy, comparable patient groups according to frailty, comparable ward size according to number of patients and staff.
- •Patients All patients on long term residency (1 month or more) are eligible for measurements.
- •Registered nurses (RN) and authorized social educators (ASE) RN's and ASE's with position above 50% are eligible according to participation in the educational meeting and to be recruited as a local opinion leader in intervention
- •All staff is invited to the educational outreach meetings throughout the intervention period.
排除标准
- •Nursing homes with diverse staff and patient composition
- •Patients on short term residency
- •Registered nurses (RN) and authorized social educators (ASE) RN's and ASE's with position less than 50%
研究组 & 干预措施
Educational and counselling program
In addition to educational meeting and printed educational material the investigators will include the use of local opinion leaders and educational outreach
干预措施: Educational and counselling program (Behavioral)
Educational program
The investigators want to organize the educational meetings as an interactive workshop that target knowledge, attitudes, and skills at the individual healthcare professional/peer group level.
干预措施: Educational program (Behavioral)
Control group
The control group will not receive any educational program. It represents the present real life in nursing homes.
结局指标
主要结局
The proportion patients assessed by the clinical guidelines
时间窗: 3 months
90% of the patients assessed by the clinical guideline
次要结局
- The proportion of missing data in each completed questionnaire(3 months)
- Proportion of completed patient health questionnaires(3 months)
- Acceptable performance of multiple choice test measuring change in staff knowledge.(3 months)