Clinical trial NCT04262973: Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care
Official title: Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for Dementia in Acute Care: Development, Implementation and Evaluation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Keywords: dementia
hospital
acute care
interprofessional education
interprofessional practice
Lead sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-02-10
Enrollment: 428
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: 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.

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of Dementia Care Knowledge
timeFrame: 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]
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change of dementia self-efficacy scale
timeFrame: 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]
measure: mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia
timeFrame: about 2 years
measure: length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia
timeFrame: about 2 years
measure: the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia
timeFrame: about 2 years
measure: the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia
timeFrame: about 2 years
measure: score of Beck depression inventory
timeFrame: about 2 years
measure: score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)
timeFrame: about 2 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kaohsiung city
country: Taiwan
facility: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
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