Validation of a Life Stories Methodologies in Long-Term Care Centres
NCT Number: NCT06569628
Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Phases: NA
Conditions: Long-term Care Centres for Old Adults Users|Relatives of Long-term Care Centres for Old Adults Users|Long-term Care Centres for Old Adults Professionals
Interventions: COMBINATION_PRODUCT: Envita Stories Methodology in Long-term care Centres for old adults|BEHAVIORAL: Contact Methodology in Long-term Care Centres for old adults
Sponsor: Envita Digital Solutions S.L.
Collaborators: Agencia Gallega de Innovación (GAIN)|Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia-Spain|DomusVi, long-term care centres for old adults
Sex: ALL
Age: CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Enrollment: 378
Study Design: Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED|Intervention Model: FACTORIAL|Masking: SINGLE (PARTICIPANT)|Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Start Date: 2024-04-25
Completion Date: 2027-04
Locations: Faculty of Psychology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Galicia, 15782, Spain|Envita Digital Solutions S.L., Vigo, Pontevedra/Galicia, 36211, Spain

Summary:
The objective of the research is to validate a methodology for implementing narrative care, through the incorporation of people's biographies and life stories, in interventions in long-term care centres for older adults.

From a positivist perspective of gerontological intervention, priority will be given to the validation of quantitative methodologies with empirical support. The study will involve 378 users residing in Galician long-term care centres for older adults. At the theoretical level, there is a broad consensus among professionals and experts on the need to develop new methodologies that allow the personalization of long-term care care and facilitate the development and promotion of the life projects of the older persons through the provision of the support that a particular person needs. In addition, there is a large body of practical interventions that attempt to apply these postulates. However, there is a clear lack of research methodologies that provide robust scientific results and data to support and evaluate these new developments.

Primary Outcome Measures: Cognitive status, Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA). The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is designed to assess mild cognitive dysfunction. This instrument examines the following skills: attention, concentration, executive functions (including the capacity for abstraction), memory, language, visuoconstructive abilities, calculation and orientation., Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Memory, Test of Memory Impairment (T@M). The Test of Memory Impairment (T@M) is a cognitive screening test, with a high discriminatory value for amnestic mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease among the general population. It consists of five sections: Immediate Memory, Temporal Orientation Memory, Semantic Remote Memory, Free Recall Memory and Cue Recall Memory, Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Functional Status, Lawton and Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. It evaluates the daily functionality of the person by means of 8 items: ability to use the telephone, shopping, food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, use of means of transportation and responsibility regarding medication and administration of their finances., Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Affectivity and Emotions, PANAS questionnaire of positive and negative moods. This questionnaire allows to evaluate, separately, the positive (10 questions) and negative (10 questions) emotional experiences recently lived., Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Social network, OARS Social Resources Scale. It assesses the social network of the old adults., Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Loneliness, DeJong Loneliness Questionnaire. Assesses emotional loneliness, missing an intimate relationship, and social loneliness, missing a wider social network., Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.|Acceptance of Technology, d-hoc user experience questionnaire based on the Technology Acceptance Model (Nieto-Vietes et al., 2023), Three assessments: (1) Baseline assesment: Month 1, (2) 1st follow-up assessment: between month 7 and month 10; and (3) 2nd follow-up assessment: between month 13 and month 16.