The purpose of this study is to develop an interprofessional education and practice model for acute care related to dementia and evaluate its effectiveness of implementation.
The researchers will recruit participants from a medical center (experimental group) and two regional hospitals (control group) in southern Taiwan. Both the experimental group and the control group will contain 150 healthcare professionals and 64 patients with dementia. Both of the groups will receive a six-hour dementia care course. Then, only the experimental group will receive a half-day interprofessional education workshop, maintain a six-month interprofessional practice model, and join interprofessional practice experience-sharing conferences. The evaluation of outcomes will include the analyses of healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of dementia care. The evaluation times are to be before and after the dementia care course and after the six months of interprofessional practice. The other evaluation of outcome is comparison of the outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia between the two groups before the interprofessional education workshop and after the interprofessional practice.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
428
six-hour dementia care course
six-hour dementia care course, half-day interprofessional education workshop, and interprofessional practice
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Change of Dementia Care Knowledge
testing the change of professionals' Dementia Care Knowledge. The minimum value of this scale is 0, and the maximum value is 16. Higher scores mean having better Dementia Care Knowledge.
Time frame: Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]
Change of dementia self-efficacy scale
testing professionals' dementia self-efficacy. The scale has not developed yet. It will be developed and test the reliability and validity in this study.
Time frame: Before education program(pre-intervention), after education program(10 months), after the workshop(10 months), after the six months interprofessional practice(post intervention)[about 8 months]
mortality rate of hospitalized patients with dementia
understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
Time frame: about 2 years
length of stays of hospitalized patients with dementia
understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
Time frame: about 2 years
the incidence of fall hospitalized patients with dementia
understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
Time frame: about 2 years
the incidence of pain hospitalized patients with dementia
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understand the treatment outcomes of hospitalized patients with dementia before the interventions six months and after interventions six months.
Time frame: about 2 years
score of Beck depression inventory
testing psychological symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia
Time frame: about 2 years
score of Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI)
testing behavioral symptoms of hospitalized patients with dementia
Time frame: about 2 years