Clinical trial NCT06572748: Evaluation Study for the Chef Anchor 3.0 Program
Official title: Evaluation Study for the Chef Anchor 3.0 Program for Older People With Mild Cognitive Impairment/Dementia and Their Informal Caregivers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment
Dementia
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Limited
First posted: 2024-08-27
Enrollment: 136
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Objectives:

1. (Primary)To estimate the potential effects of the cooking program on the people with MCI/dementia and their informal caregivers;
2. To investigate if the potential effects can be maintained after the completion of the program.

Study design and participants:

A convenience sample of 68 pair older adults with MCI/dementia and their informal caregivers from the Chef Anchor 3.0 Programme will be referred to the research team. Overall, participants will be assigned to intervention group and waitlist control group in a ratio of 1:1. Allocation will take into account the participants' availability and the programme capacity. Assessors of outcomes and data analyst will be blinded throughout the whole study.

During the first 10 weeks, the intervention group will undergo the 10-week programme in the "Chef Anchor 3.0", while no activity for the waitlist control group. Then, from week 10 to 20, the waitlist control group will attend the same 10-week programme.

Measurements:

Main outcome measures for people with MCI/dementia will include confidence in cooking (Primary), cooking capability, satisfaction with autonomy in cooking, Satisfaction with meal choices, Worried about future cooking ability and meal choices, cognitive function, self-reported appetite, psychological well-being, family harmony and satisfaction, as well as self-rated health.

Outcome measures for informal caregivers will include confidence in care recipient' s cooking, worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient, caregiver burden, psychological well-being, family harmony and satisfaction, as well as self-rated health.

Other measures will include attendance rate, home practice rate, drop-out rate, programme satisfaction, and recommendation to others.

Hypotheses

1. The confidence in cooking, cooking capability, satisfaction with autonomy in cooking, satisfaction with meal choices, worried about future cooking ability and meal choices, cognitive function, self-reported appetite, psychological well-being, family satisfaction, and self-rated health of older adults with MCI/dementia would improve after the programme;
2. The confidence in care recipient's cooking, worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient, psychological well-being, family satisfaction, caregiver burden, and self-rated health of informal caregivers would improve after the programme;
3. The 10-week programme is acceptable for the most of older adults with MCI/dementia and their informal caregivers.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

i. Aged 60 or above;

ii. Diagnosed by medical doctor has having MCI/dementia as reported by the older adults or their informal caregivers, or with reported subjective decline of cognitive function and with 5-min MoCA score ≤7th age- and education-specific percentile (Wong et al., 2015);

iii. Ability to follow simple instructions;

iv. Adequate physical strength to attend cooking workshops.

Exclusion Criteria:

i. Without caregiver

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline confidence in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline confidence in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline confidence in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline cooking capability of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline cooking capability of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline cooking capability of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with autonomy in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with autonomy in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with autonomy in cooking of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline satisfaction with meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline cognitive function of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline cognitive function of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline cognitive function of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline self-reported appetite of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-reported appetite of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-reported appetite of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline Happiness of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline Happiness of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline Happiness of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline food-related life satisfaction of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline food-related life satisfaction of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline food-related life satisfaction of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline self-esteem of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-esteem of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-esteem of psychological well-being of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of people with MCI/dementia at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of people with MCI/dementia at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of people with MCI/dementia at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline confidence in care recipient's cooking of caregivers at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline confidence in care recipient's cooking of caregivers at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline confidence in care recipient's cooking of caregivers at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient of caregivers at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient of caregivers at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient of caregivers at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline caregiver burden at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline caregiver burden at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline caregiver burden at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline meaning in life of psychological well-being of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline happiness of psychological well-being of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline happiness of psychological well-being of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline happiness of psychological well-being of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of psychological well-being of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of psychological well-being of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of psychological well-being of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of subjective well-being of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of subjective well-being of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline life satisfaction of subjective well-being of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline family harmony and satisfaction of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of caregiver at 10 weeks
timeFrame: 10 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of caregiver at 20 weeks
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline
measure: Change from baseline self-rated health of caregiver at 30 weeks
timeFrame: 30 weeks after baseline, only for waitlist control group
measure: Attendance rate
timeFrame: During 10 weeks intervention
measure: Home practice rate
timeFrame: 10, 20 weeks after baseline for intervention group. 10, 20 and 30 weeks after baseline for waitlist control group.
measure: Drop-out rate
timeFrame: During 20 weeks after baseline for intervention group. During 30 weeks after baseline for waitlist control group.
measure: Programme satisfaction
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline for intervention group, 30 weeks after baseline for waitlist control group.
measure: Recommendation to others
timeFrame: 20 weeks after baseline for intervention group, 30 weeks after baseline for waitlist control group.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: Elderly community centre
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong
name: Pui Hing Chau
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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