Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes (SAM-AKS)

December 11, 2014 updated by: Sverre Bergh, Sykehuset Innlandet HF
Dementia is a serious health problem showing an increasing prevalence rate with increasing age. In Norway, about 80% of nursing home patients have dementia. The mean age of nursing home residents in Norway is around 84 years. Disruptive and agitated behaviour affect 30-50% of all individuals with dementia at some point in the course of the illness. In addition, they have a combination of physical and psychological diseases which necessitates a close collaboration between different specialities in medicine and Old Age psychiatry. In collaboration with the communalities, our Old Age psychiatry services want to provide a new approach to this challenge and validate it on patient and personnel level.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

700

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Norway
    • Oppland
      • Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway
        • Lillehammer sykehjem

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • All patients at nursing home units

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients that are in a final state and patients that have not been at the nursing home unit more than two weeks

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Education and supervision
Personnel in nursing home units get intervention in form of education and supervision
Other: Education and Supervision
Implementation of Scales in the care of patients with dementia in nursing home units with focus on person-centred care. Supervision of caregivers on a regular basis.
Other Names:
  • Departments in NHs that do not get any intervention.
Other: Control
A control group of nursing home units that do not get any form of active intervention
Other Names:
  • Education
  • Supervision
No Intervention: Control
Only registering of patient and personnel data in the beginning and the end of the study without any form of intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Quality of Life in Severe Dementia (QUALID), Person-Centred Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT, 2010)
Time Frame: 12 months after baseline assessment
Evaluate a new model of collaboration between a specialized department of Old Age Psychiatry and nursing home units to optimize patient care and job satisfaction of the caregivers.
12 months after baseline assessment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Nursing Home version, Cornell Scale of Depression in Dementia, Registration of Constraints (Kirkevold, 2004)
Time Frame: 12 months after baseline assessment
In addition, we want to carry out a qualitative evaluation of the process of implementation of new scales and the effect of supervision on personnel and patients
12 months after baseline assessment

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Collaborators

Helse Sor-Ost
Norwegian Department of Health and Social Affairs

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Geir Selbæk, PhD, Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2010

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2012

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 22, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 7, 2010

First Posted (Estimate)

October 8, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 12, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 11, 2014

Last Verified

December 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 50022

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