Improving the management of behaviour that challenges associated with dementia in care homes: a pharmacy-health psychology intervention feasibility study

Aston University0 个研究点目标入组 34 人开始时间: 2017年10月5日最近更新: 2023年11月20日

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试验速览

2016 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27009145 protocol 2018 Results article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340480 results (added 10/09/2019) 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32122341/ (added 08/11/2023)

•1. Receiving medication (including but not limited to medicines in British National Formulary [BNF] sections 4.1/4.2/4.3/4.11) to treat behaviour that challenges
•2. Resident within a long-term care facility
•3. Registered with a West Midlands GP (who has also agreed to participate)
•4. Dementia confirmed (dementia register, documentation of relevant read codes, confirmation of diagnosis via communication from old age psychiatry, memory clinic or clinical psychologist)
•5. Patient or personal consultee willing to provide consent/assent
•6. A proxy informant (key worker or staff member with close working relationship) who can clearly communicate in English available

•1. Patient or personal consultee unable or unwilling to provide consent or lacks necessary English-language skills
•2. On palliative care register, or has pathology requiring complex specialist medication
•3. Risk of harm in line with Alzheimer Society guidance (guidelines published in 2011, currently being updated and therefore not available)
•4. Severe mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia) where psychotropic treatment should be continued

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