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NCT Number: NCT06574438

The Effectiveness of AIFIGA Program on Nursing Home Nursing Staff and Family and Residents'Health

This study aims to develop and evaluate the longitudinal effectiveness of the Artificial Intelligence Family Involvement Generative Agent (AIFIGA) program in enhancing the health of nursing staff, family, and residents' health through the use of a sequential, mixed methods research design. The development of a real-time, interactive, and informative AIFIGA program that sparks innovation is necessary to achieve effective communication between families and nursing staff.

In Phase I, lasting 18 months, we will develop the AIFIGA program based on triangulate research design, observation and in-depth interview understanding the daily communication experiences and expectations from both families and nursing staff perception in Nursing Homes(NHs) after COVID-19, as well as our previous years' research results. The training data for AIFIGA will be derived from the collection of communication dialogues in these qualitative data. Furthermore, the intelligence of AIFIGA will be developed using publicly available large language models (LLMs).

In Phase II, spanning the next 18 months, we will evaluate the longitudinal effects of the AIFIGA program on the health of residents, families, and nursing staff, tracking changes over time (baseline, 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months). There will be two groups of participants: (a) an AIFIGA group that receives the AIFIGA program and uses it for 3 months, and (b) a control group that receives only routine care.

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Key information

Conditions

Family Digital Health Nursing Home

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Catholic Mercy Hospital Attached Nursing Home

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Pei-Ling Yu, MSN

CONTACT

[email protected]

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

All resident-caregiver pairs meeting the inclusion criteria will be invited to join the study.

  • residents aged ≥ 60 years, resident's family were aged equal or higher than 20 years.
  • both residents and family can communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese
  • residents have a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score equal to or higher than 16 for residents with no formal education or higher than 24 for residents with at least a primary school education
  • both residents and family agree to participate
  • the family is a significant member of the resident, such as a caregiver.

For nurses and nursing aides:

  • working in the selected nursing home who agree to participate in our program.
  • aged equal or higher than 20 years.

Exclusion criteria

-

Treatment and study plan

AIFIGA program

Behavioral

receives the Artificial Intelligence Family Involvement Generative Agent (AIFIGA) program and uses it for 3 months

Primary outcomes

  1. resident health-Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

    Time frame: baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

    scale for depression( scored from 0 through to 15.Scores of 0-4 are considered normal; 5-8 indicate mild depression; 9-11 indicate moderate depression; and 12-15 indicate severe depression.)

  2. resident health-Activity of daily living (ADL)

    Time frame: baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

    assess individual's ability to perform basic self-care tasks (scored from 0 through to 100. higher scores mean more independence)

  3. social support scale

    Time frame: baseline

    Evaluated quantities of social support (four-point Likert scale, where higher scores indicate a greater amount of each type of social resource) & satisfaction with social support (five-point Likert scale, where higher scores indicate greater satisfaction with social support)

  4. brief Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale(CESD-10)

    Time frame: baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

    assessment for family' depressive status.(scored from 0 through to 30. Any score equal to or above 10 is considered depressed)

  5. The General Health Questionnaire-12(GHQ-12)

    Time frame: baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

    assessing the mental health status of respondents. ( total score ranges from 0 to 36, Higher scores mean better mental health status outcome)

  6. Family Meaning of Nursing-Home Visits scale

    Time frame: baseline, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months

    measurement of family visiting involvement meaning

Study contacts

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

Hsiu Hsin Tsai, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

032118800 ext. 5075

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

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Registry information

Official study title

The Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Family Involvement Generative Agent (AIFIGA) Program on Nursing Home Nursing Staff and Family and Residents'Health

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Aug 28, 2024
Registry last updated
Feb 9, 2026

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