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NCT Number: NCT01217541

Collaboration Between Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Nursing Homes

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Dementia Aberrant Motor Behavior in Dementia Agitation Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer's Disease Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Dyskinesias Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurobehavioral Manifestations Neurocognitive Disorders Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Psychomotor Agitation Psychomotor Disorders Signs and Symptoms Tauopathies

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Lillehammer sykehjem

Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Education and Supervision

Other

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.

Control

Other

A control group of nursing home units that do not get any form of active intervention

Other names: Education, Supervision

Primary outcomes

  1. 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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Other

Collaborators

  • Helse Sor-Ost
  • Norwegian Department of Health and Social Affairs

Registry information

Acronym: SAM-AKS

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2012
Study completion
2012
First posted
Oct 8, 2010
Registry last updated
Dec 12, 2014

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