Exploring How Health Care Support Workers Respond to Distressed Behaviour in People With Dementia

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT07257263

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust6 enrolled

Overview

* To provide a narrative description of healthcare support workers experiences of responding to distressed behaviours in people with dementia * To explore how these experiences might guide future training needs

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Dementia

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthcare support workers * Working in a ward-setting caring for people with dementia * Based in the main acute hospital Exclusion Criteria: * Registered staff (nurses and nursing associates) * Allied Health Professionals and therapy support workers * Healthcare support workers employed outside the main acute hospital

Locations (1)

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Truro, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The study aims to capture the experiences of healthcare support workers caring for people with dementia that may display distressed behaviours

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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