Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support for Home Care Staff

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

Detailed Description
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Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many lack empathy for those with dementia. Training courses for home care staff often are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs. This two-group cluster randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff. The dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program. The interventional group will receive a dementia care training using dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program. The control group will only receive dementia care e-books and peer support with no dementia virtual reality activity. Both groups will be assessed for their dementia care knowledge, attitudes, care competence, work stress and empathy at baseline, month 3, and 6.

Official Title
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Evaluation of a Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support Program for Home Care Staff

Conditions
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Dementia

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Intervention group
* Other: Control group


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: age 20 to 65 years Taiwanese nationality had worked as a home care staff for at least three months had experience in providing home care for patients with dementia had a mobile phone or tablet and regular access to the internet Exclusion Criteria: Home care staff who do not meet the inclusion criteria can not provide informed consent.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 20 Years
Maximum Age: 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: two-group cluster randomised controlled trial
Masking: Double


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Intervention group<br>receive dementia care training | Other: Intervention group<br>* Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.<br>|
| Active Comparator: Control group<br>receive dementia care training without virtual reality activity | Other: Control group<br>* Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale | To evaluate care staff's knowledge of dementia, range from 0-50 | 6 months | 
| Approach to Dementia Questionnaire | To evaluate care staff's attitude toward Dementia, range from 19-95 | 6 moths | 
| Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale | To evaluate care staff's competence of caring for people with dementia, range from 16-68 | 6 months | 
| Jefferson Scale of Empathy | To evaluate care staff's level of empathy toward patients, score range from 20-140 | 6 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Simple Work Stress Scale | To evaluate level of work stress of care staff | 6 moths | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Home care staff, dementia care, virtual reality