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NCT Number: NCT02270385

The Effectiveness of a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Programme for Older People in For-profit Private Nursing Homes

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a PU prevention programme for for-profit private nursing homes

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Key information

Conditions

Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Pressure Ulcer Skin Diseases Skin Ulcer Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Tung Wah College

Hong Kong, China

About this study

The study will be conducted as a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial, which will compare the efficacy of a PU prevention programme versus usual PU prevention for older people in eight for-profit private nursing homes in Hong Kong. For-profit private NHs recruited will be randomly assigned as experimental or control groups. The nursing homes in the experimental group will be implemented a PU prevention programme. The programme includes a training course which was tailor-made for health workers(HWs) and persona care workers (PCWs) and also a 16-week PU prevention protocol. The outcome measures are incidence and prevalence rate of PUs as well as level of PU knowledge and skill among care staff in the nursing homes. In data analysis, survival analysis will be adopted for identifying PU incidence and prevalence rate. GEE will be used to analyze the time and effect differences of PU knowledge and skills among the care staff between two groups.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • For-profit private nursing homes having been classified as the category A2 homes in the Enhanced Bought Place Scheme and are eager to improve current pressure ulcer prevention care;
  • For for-profit private nursing homes having a capacity of around 130-150 beds;
  • For for-profit private nursing homes having no structured PU prevention protocol, and/or programmes in place;- Residents aged 60 or above
  • Care staff including personal care workers, health workers and nurses who provide direct care to residents.

Exclusion criteria

  • Care staffs who are not speak in Chinese.

Treatment and study plan

PU prevention programme

Behavioral

The PU prevention programme consists of two major components which are an intensive training course(a 2-hour lecture and two skill training sessions) and a PU prevention protocol.

Usual PU prevention care

Behavioral

Usual PU prevention care that is a series of basic nursing care activities: repositioning of residents, moisturization , change of napkins to keep buttock dry.

Primary outcomes

  1. Pressure ulcer incidence

    Time frame: The PUs incidence will be summed up for three periods of time, from T0 to T1, T1 to T2 and T2 to T3.

    The two RAs will inspect the skin of each residents three times a week to detect the first PUs ( those detected on residents without PUs) and the new PUs (those detected on residents already suffering from PUs), starting from one day before the staff training to the end of the protocol implementation (. The numbers, locations, and stages of the PUs detected will be recorded in the PU incidence form. The PU incidence will be then summed up for three periods of time as following. T0 to T1: one day before the commencement of the training course (T0) to the day immediately before the commencement of the protocol implementation (T1) .T1 to T2: the day immediately before the commencement of the protocol implementation (T1) to the eighth week after the commencement of the protocol implementation (T2).T2 to T3: the eighth week after the commencement of the protocol implementation (T2) to the sixteenth week of protocol implementation (T3).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Effectiveness of a Pressure Ulcer (PU) Prevention Programme for Older People in For-profit Private Nursing Homes (NHs): a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Oct 21, 2014
Registry last updated
May 24, 2017

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