Use of Telemedicine in Collaboration Between a Psychogeriatric Unit and Nursing Homes

Overview

The investigators want to evaluate the use of video-conference in the collaboration between the investigators psychogeriatric department and nursing homes. The study aim is to give supervision on a regular basis to the caregivers on a special care unit for patients with dementia with behavioural disturbances during a period of half a year. The investigators want to investigate the impact on caregivers and patients by applying certain tests at baseline, during the intervention and half a year after the intervention.

Full Title of Study: “Use of Telemedicine in Collaboration Between a Psychogeriatric Unit and Nursing”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Non-Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: September 2011

Interventions

  • Behavioral: Training in person centered care by supervision using video-conference
    • The investigators will use video-conference for supervising and training of staff members in nursing homes

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Training and supervision of staff
    • Staff members get training in person centered care by supervision using video-conference kit

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Neuropsychiatric inventory – nursing home version (NPI-NH)
    • Time Frame: week 48
    • The investigators want to find out if a supervision of staff members over a six months time, using video-conference technic, contributes to improvement in patients’ behaviour registered by NPI-NH

Secondary Measures

  • Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) Person centered care assessment tool (P-CAT)
    • Time Frame: week 48
    • Measures the effect of our intervention related to apply person centred dementia care

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Being resident in a special care unit for persons with dementia Exclusion Criteria:

  • Shorter stay than four weeks before inclusion – terminally ill

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: N/A

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Sykehuset Innlandet HF
  • Collaborator
    • Norwegian Department of Health and Social Affairs
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Morten Lang-Ree, CEO, Sykehuset Innlandet Health Trust
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Oskar H Sommer, PhD, Principal Investigator, SykehusetInnlandet, Norway

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