An interventional study of e-training course and Support group in Dementia, sponsored by Tzu Chi University. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-02-01.
Sponsored by Tzu Chi University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
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.
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.
2,172 studies on the registry are indexed under Dementia; 540 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 140 is above the median of 83 across 1,629 interventional studies indexed under Dementia.
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Exclusion Criteria:
E-training course programs, counseling mentoring supports and support group gatherings meeting.
Other: e-training course · Other: Support group
Traditional classroom teaching course programs.
Other: traditional classroom teaching course programs
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.
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.
Home care staff received the traditional demented care traditional classroom teaching course and did not accept any e-training and gathering.
Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale
To evaluate the staff care for knowledge of patients with dementia, range from 0-50, higher values represent the higher the care knowledge.
Time frame: 6 month
Approach to Dementia Questionnaire
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.
Time frame: 6 month
Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale
To evaluate the staff care for demented patients, range from 16-68, higher values represent Staff have good care ability.
Time frame: 6 month
Maslach Burnout Inventory
To evaluate the Maslach Burnout Inventory,, range from 0-72, higher values represent a worse outcome.
Time frame: 6 month
Taiwan Simple Work Stress Scale
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.
Time frame: 6 month
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