Effects and Costs of a Day Care Centre Program Designed for People With Dementia (ECOD)

February 7, 2020 updated by: Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

Effects and Costs of a Day Care Centre Program Designed for People With Dementia - a 24 Month Controlled Study

Attending day care centres with programs specifically designed for patients with dementia is believed to postpone admittance to nursing home as well as increase quality of life and well-being for both patients and their family caregivers. We aim to investigate to what degree attendance in day care centres with programs for people with dementia is effective for patient and their caregivers whilst also cost efficient for society. The study consists of a quasi-experimental trial with comparison group. 400 patients with dementia, along with a family caregiver, will be included in the trial. Effects will be measured at baseline, after one and two years. Data collection will be made at three levels; at patient level with measures of cognition, depression, quality of life, functioning in activities in daily living, neuropsychiatric symptoms and death; at caregiver level with measures of depression, level of burden and quality of life; and at societal level with measures of nursing home admittance, hospital stays and use of other health resources. Additionally,a qualitative interview study will include 20 dyads from the main trial. The main focus will be on how attending day care centre programs for patients with dementia affect the lives of both patients and caregivers. Five of these dyads will be followed closely throughout the participation period to be used as case examples.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

A quasi experimental trial with a comparison group will be performed to evaluate the effect of the day care centre programs by comparing results from municipalities with (intervention group) and without (comparison group) a day care centre program designed for people with dementia using standardized assessment tools. Furthermore, a survey will be used to explore the communication and co-operation between the professional staff at the day care centre, the patients and the family carers by administering questionnaires to all three parties. Only patients with mild degree of dementia will be asked to participate in the questionnaire. Finally, qualitative interviews will be made with 20 dyads of patients and family carers to collect their in depth experience with the day care centre program. Five of these patients and their family carers will be followed closely as case examples for two years.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

261

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
      • Tønsberg, Norway, 3103
        • Norwegian centre of Ageing and Health

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

65 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age of 65 years or more and living at home
  • Patients in the day care centre group must have attended the centre for at least four weeks and have been there no longer than nine months
  • Dementia of either Alzheimer's type, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies/Parkinson's disease or a mixture of these types of dementias
  • Capacity to give informed consent as judged by the professional caregivers
  • A Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) score of ≥15
  • Having a family carer willing to participate, who see the patients personally at least once a week
  • Attending the day care centre program at least twice a week

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Having applied for nursing home placement
  • Suffering from a serious co-morbid physical disorder with life expectancy less than six months

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: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Day care for patients with dementia
Behavioral: Day care for patients with dementia
Day care centres designed by the local authorities for patients with dementia
No Intervention: Care as usual

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Admittance to nursing home care
Time Frame: 24 months
The number of patients admitted to nursing home care during a period of 24 months will be the primary outcome for the effect and the cost-consequence analysis
24 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in Quality of life for patients
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The quality of life for patients as measured by Quality of Life - Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD)
12 and 24 months
Change in the patient's functioning of daily living
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The Physical self-Maintenance Scale and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale will be used to assess change in the patient's function of daily living
12 and 24 months
Change in depressive symptoms in patients
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The change in depressive symptoms will be assessed by Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)by interviews with both patient and family carer and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) by interviews with family carers and a professional caregiver
12 and 24 months
Change in patient's cognition
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
Patient's cognition will be assessed using the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) the Clock Drawing Test (CDT), the Trail Making Test A (TMT-A)and the 10 word test of the Consortium to Establish a Registry in Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD)
12 and 24 months
Change in neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The change in Neuropsychiatric symptoms will be assessed using Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q)
12 and 24 months
Patients death
Time Frame: 24 months
Number of patients that have died during 24 months will be registered
24 months
Change in level of burden in family carers
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
Level of burden for family carers will be assessed by using the Relative's Stress Scale (RSS)
12 and 24 months
Change in family carers depressive symptoms
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The MADRS will be used to assess depressive symptoms in family carers
12 and 24 months
Change in quality of life for family carers
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
QoL-AD will be used to assess quality of life in family carers
12 and 24 months
Differences in the use of health resources between the intervention group and the control group
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
The use of health resources will be measured using the resource Utilization in Dementia scale (RUD)
12 and 24 months
Differences in quality adjusted life years between the intervention group and the control group
Time Frame: 12 and 24 months
A generic instrument, the EuroQol (EQ-5D) will be used to measure quality adjusted life years
12 and 24 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

Collaborators

The Research Council of Norway

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Knut Engedal, Professor, Norwegian Centre for Ageling and health

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 1, 2013

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 11, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 11, 2013

First Posted (Estimate)

September 16, 2013

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 10, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 7, 2020

Last Verified

February 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • NCAH-ECOD

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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