Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care

Overview

The purpose of this study is to develop an interprofessional education and practice model for acute care related to dementia and evaluate its effectiveness of implementation.

Full Title of Study: “Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care: Development, Implementation and Evaluation”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Non-Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
    • Masking: Single (Participant)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: July 31, 2023

Detailed Description

The researchers will recruit participants from a medical center (experimental group) and two regional hospitals (control group) in southern Taiwan. Both the experimental group and the control group will contain 150 healthcare professionals and 64 patients with dementia. Both of the groups will receive a six-hour dementia care course. Then, only the experimental group will receive a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences. The evaluation of outcomes will include the analyses of healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of dementia care. The evaluation times are to be before and after the dementia care course and after the six months of interprofessional practice. The other evaluation of outcome is comparison of the outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia between the two groups before the interprofessional education workshop and after the interprofessional practice.

Interventions

  • Other: education
    • six-hour dementia care course
  • Other: education and workshop
    • six-hour dementia care course, half-day interprofessional education workshop, and interprofessional practice

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: experimental group
    • The experimental group will not only receive six-hour dementia care course, but also a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences.
  • Active Comparator: control group
    • The control group will only receive six-hour dementia care course.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Change of Dementia Care Knowledge
    • Time Frame: Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]
    • testing the change of professionals’ Dementia Care Knowledge. The minimum value of this scale is 0, and the maximum value is 16. Higher scores mean having better Dementia Care Knowledge.

Secondary Measures

  • Change of dementia self-efficacy scale
    • Time Frame: Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]
    • testing professionals’ dementia self-efficacy. The scale has not developed yet. It will be developed and test the reliability and validity in this study.
  • mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
  • length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
  • the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
  • the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
  • score of Beck depression inventory
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • testing psychological symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia
  • score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)
    • Time Frame: about 2 years
    • testing behavioral symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • healthcare professionals having worked for 3 months or more – emergency/hospitalized patients with dementia – patients diagnosed dementia – scoring 1 or more in Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR). Exclusion Criteria:

  • healthcare professionals working in obstetrics, pediatrics, outpatient, or hemodialysis.

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 20 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Contact(s)
    • PEI-CHAO LIN, doctoarte, 886-7-3121101, pclin@kmu.edu.tw

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