Clinical trial NCT05530590: Minnesota Inclusive LTSS for LGBTQ Seniors
Official title: Training the Long-Term Services and Supports Dementia Care Workforce in Provision of Care to Sexual and Gender Minority Residents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Alzheimer Disease
Dementia
Keywords: Long-term support and service facilities
Alzheimer Disease
Dementia
LTSS
Seniors
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2022-09-07
Enrollment: 760
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study involves conducting a 3-arm, stratified (management/staff), group (agency) randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the in-person vs. online intervention vs. waitlist control on organizational factors (i.e., environment and policy) and on staff knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study is designed to help improve the care of sexual and gender minority (SGM) with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementia (AD/ADRD) in long-term services and supports (LTSS) by training the state's LTSS workforce in SGM culturally responsive care. The randomized controlled trial will rigorously test the effects of an in person versus an online training program on improving SGM culturally responsive care with a waitlist control.

Detailed description: The study involves conducting a 3-arm, stratified (management/staff), group (agency) randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the in-person vs. online intervention vs. waitlist control on organizational factors (i.e., environment and policy) and on staff knowledge, attitudes, and skills.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* licensure in Minnesota to provide nursing and/or as a housing with services establishment
* Willingness to undertake a policy and environment review at baseline and 6 months later
* having at least 5 managers/ supervisors and 5 staff.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants who cannot speak and read English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Environment change
timeFrame: baseline and 6-months follow up
measure: Skills assessment
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Skills assessment
timeFrame: Immediately post-intervention
measure: Competence in SGM Care
timeFrame: 6 months after intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: SGM with AD/ADRD referenced explicitly in policies
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: SGM with AD/ADRD referenced explicitly in policies
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: SGM knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: SGM knowledge
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention
measure: SGM knowledge
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: SGM attitudes
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: SGM attitudes
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention
measure: SGM attitudes
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Health care empathy
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Health care empathy
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention
measure: Health care empathy
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
measure: Discrimination experience at work
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Discrimination experience at work
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention
measure: Discrimination experience at work
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Social desirability at work
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Social desirability at work
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention
measure: Social desirability at work
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Sexual and Religious Identification
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Sexual and Religious Identification
timeFrame: 6 months follow-up post-intervention
measure: Agency demographics
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: SGM estimate
timeFrame: Baseline and 6 month follow up.
measure: SGM estimate
timeFrame: 6 months follow up post-intervention
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Simon Rosser, PhD,MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Tetyanna Shippee, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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