Development and Evaluation of E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

January 30, 2019 updated by: Hsin Feng SU, Tzu Chi University

E-training and Mentoring Support Program on Dementia Care for Home-care Workers

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.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

140

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

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

16 years to 61 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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.

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: Other
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention
E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.
Other: e-training course
Home care staff received mainly self-study, you can download e-books on your lithography or personal mobile phone reading and learning, with lively animation, sound and video guide home staff Learn the knowledge of demented care. The e-book course sets out the themes of the eight demented care training courses.
Other: Support group
A counseling master mix 8~10 resident staff members, through the counselor to lead the symposium to the case home to implement technical guidance and through the set of social network groups to immediately discuss the care and solutions of dementia cases, and hold once a month in gathering, about 40~60 minutes each time.
Active Comparator: Control
Traditional classroom teaching course programs.
Other: traditional classroom teaching course programs
Home care staff received the traditional demented care traditional classroom teaching course and did not accept any e-training and gathering.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale
Time Frame: 6 month
To evaluate the staff care for knowledge of patients with dementia, range from 0-50, higher values represent the higher the care knowledge.
6 month
Approach to Dementia Questionnaire
Time Frame: 6 month
To evaluate the staff care for Dementia care attitude, range from 19-95, higher values represent the more positive the attitude of the caregiver to dementia care.
6 month
Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale
Time Frame: 6 month
To evaluate the staff care for demented patients, range from 16-68, higher values represent Staff have good care ability.
6 month
Maslach Burnout Inventory
Time Frame: 6 month
To evaluate the Maslach Burnout Inventory,, range from 0-72, higher values represent a worse outcome.
6 month
Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale
Time Frame: 6 month
The main purpose is to measure the working pressure situation. The scale has a total of 38 questions, eight faces, each facing the score range of 0-100 points. The higher the score, the greater the work pressure.
6 month

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Tzu Chi University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: HsinFeng SU, MSN, Tzu Chi University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 30, 2019

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

August 30, 2019

Study Completion (Anticipated)

September 30, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 27, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 27, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

January 30, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 1, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 30, 2019

Last Verified

January 1, 2019

More Information

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Keywords

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • YLH-10721

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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