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NCT Number: NCT06032351

Construction and Validation of Dementia Care Management Competency

This study will use the concept of competency-based education to develop an innovative integrated curriculum with EPAs to guide learning and assessment of competency performance to equip students with dementia care management competency and cultivate professionals to meet the social trends and practical needs.

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Key information

Conditions

Dementia Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Chang Gung University of Science and Technology

Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan

Location status: Recruiting

About this study

This study will use the concept of competency-based education to develop an innovative integrated curriculum with EPAs to guide learning and assessment of competency performance to equip students with dementia care management competency and cultivate professionals to meet the social trends and practical needs. The first year is a preparation period for the development of the project, which focuses on developing research tools and teacher empowerment, and evaluating the effectiveness of the control group in implementing conventional teaching methods. The second year is the program testing, implementation and evaluation period, in which two phases of the intervention is conducted and the post-intervention phase of competency is evaluated. This study is expected to establish a competency-based innovative and integrated curriculum for dementia care management over a two-year period. The results of the study will be used as a reference for schools or practices in the development of competency-based curriculum integration.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • (1)Be at least 20 years old.

(2)The students are freshmen majoring in the Department of Gerontology and Health Care Management, and taking the course on Dementia care.

(3)Before taking the course on Dementia care, have taken courses on basic geriatric nursing.

(4)voluntary participation

Exclusion criteria

  • The students who suspension of schooling.

Treatment and study plan

Innovation-integrated curriculum for dementia care and care management

Other

The curriculum integration group will receive two intervention phases, including an innovation-integrated curriculum for dementia care and an innovation-integrated curriculum for care management with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), lectures, Situated Simulation Learning, Team-based learning, and Objective Structured Clinical Examination(OSCE).

Other names: experimental group

Traditional classroom teaching course programs

Other

The conventional teaching group will receive only traditional classroom teaching course programs.

Other names: Control Group

Primary outcomes

  1. Demographic data of student

    Time frame: The investigators will collect demographic data of students on the day before the start date of the intervention.

    Include age, gender, education level, areas of studying, etc.

  2. Dementia Care Professional Competency Assessment Scale

    Time frame: T0(Baseline), T1(Immediately after the intervention), T2(3 months after the intervention).

    • The scale was developed by our past research that was supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant Number 106-2511-S-255-002-MY3). The scale is used to evaluate dementia care competency in students (Huang et al., 2018).
    • This Scale contains nine subscales (74 items), using Likert 5-point Likert scale from 1 to 5. A higher score means better competencies.
    • This scale is used to evaluate the competence of students.

  3. Problem solving, Teamwork Competency Assessment Scale

    Time frame: T0(Baseline), T1(Immediately after the intervention), T2(3 months after the intervention).

    • The scale was developed by our past research that was supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant Number 106-2511-S-255-002-MY3). There are 22 questions on this scale. The scale is used to evaluate the problem-solving and teamwork competency of students. (Huang et al. 2018).
    • This scale contains 22 items.10 items were used to evaluate problem-solving competencies, 12 items were used to evaluate teamwork competencies. A higher score means better competencies.
    • This scale is used to evaluate the competence of students. Change from Baseline problem-solving and teamwork competency at the end of the semester, and after students finish the clinical practice course.

  4. Learning Satisfaction Scale

    Time frame: Immediately after the intervention.

    • The scale was developed by our past research that was supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant Number 106-2511-S-255-002-MY3). There are 9 questions on this scale. The scale is used to evaluate the learning satisfaction of students. (Huang et al. 2018).
    • This Scale contains 9 items, using Likert 5-point Likert scale from 1 to 5. A higher score means high learning satisfaction.
    • This scale is used to evaluate the learning satisfaction of students.

  5. Performance in a summative OSCE test (OSCE scores)

    Time frame: Immediately after the intervention.

    • Conduct Objective Structured Clinical Examination
    • After the intervention, the study sample participated in the final OSCE exam. Their scores were compared. The minimum value was 0 while the maximum value was 100. The higher the score the better students had performed.

  6. Qualitative interview

    Time frame: The investigators will conduct qualitative interviews using focus groups 3 months after the intervention.

    Conduct qualitative interviews with the curriculum integration group students, focusing on the effectiveness of the curriculum integration.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Huei-Ling Huang, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+886-3-2118999 ext. 5803

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Chang Gung University of Science and Technology
  • National Science and Technology Council

Registry information

Official study title

Construction and Validation of Dementia Care Management Competency: From Curriculum Integration to Outcome Evaluation

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Sep 13, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 5, 2024

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