Clinical trial NCT03822286: Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers
Official title: E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Keywords: home-care worker
e-training
mentoring support
Lead sponsor: Tzu Chi University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-01-30
Enrollment: 140
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study evaluate the effects of three-month dementia care e-training and mentoring support program on home-care workers using a two-group randomized controlled trial.

Detailed description: Home care staff often have insufficient knowledge and skills of caring people with dementia at home. Many training courses for home care staff are not developed according to their educational background and workplace needs.

An innovative evidence-based online training with peer support program in dementia care was developed and consists of online cloud platform with various training courses and resources, on-the-job mentoring support by senior peers, and social networking in dementia care.

They can access to the online cloud platform by computers or smart phones anytime for immediate access to information in dementia care. They can also consult with senior peers for care problems by social network platform and attend monthly dementia care forum.

The interventional group attendance staff will accept 3-month e-training care online course, which was supervised by the supervisor and participated in the monthly counseling mentoring support group. The control group will accept the traditional dementedness care traditional classroom teaching course and will not accept any e-training .

The curriculum and counseling support group will collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, care abilities, work stress and burnout of the two groups in the pre-test, 3rd and 6th months and learn about their effectiveness.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Qualified as a care worker for the elderly welfare law, and at least three months as a home servant,
* Literacy
* Can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese,
* Caring for community clients with cognitive impairment or dementia
* Willing to participate in the study and provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* If it does not meet the conditions for receiving the case, it will not be included in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale
timeFrame: 6 month
measure: Approach to Dementia Questionnaire
timeFrame: 6 month
measure: Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale
timeFrame: 6 month
measure: Maslach Burnout Inventory
timeFrame: 6 month
measure: Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale
timeFrame: 6 month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hualien city
country: Taiwan
facility: HsinFeng,Su
Study officials:
affiliation: Tzu Chi University
name: HsinFeng SU, MSN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Su HF, Koo M, Lee WL, Sung HC, Lee RP, Liu WI. A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study. BMC Geriatr. 2021 Feb 16;21(1):126. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02075-3.