NCT02782000

The Model and Effect Assessment of Training General Practitioner for Dementia Early Recognition

Completed NA Last updated 27 December 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing lessons,long-term supervision and message in Dementia in 162 participants. Completed in 18 July 2017.

Timeline

12 August 2016

Primary endpoint
22 March 2017

18 July 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Peking University Sixth Hospital
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	162
Start date	12 August 2016
Primary completion	22 March 2017
Estimated completion	18 July 2017

Drugs / interventions tested

• lessons,long-term supervision and message
• lessons,short-term supervision and message

Conditions studied

• Dementia — all drugs for Dementia →

Sponsor

Peking University Sixth Hospital

Who can join

Adults 20 to 60, any sex, with Dementia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

With the number of aged people increasing and the lifespan lengthen, dementia is becoming a great public challenge in China. Early recognition of dementia is crucial to improve the prognosis of dementia patients and decrease the society disease burden. It is a pity that the early recognition rate of dementia is less than 7% in China. Most of the aged people live in the community and general practitioners (GP) in community provide health service much more frequently than other medical workers. It is suggested that GPs should be the best one to screen dementia in its early period. However, most of GPs have not receive any training about dementia early recognition in China. It is imperative and meaningful to provide training to GPs for improve GPs' knowledge and skills about dementia early recognition. How to train GPs for early recognizing dementia and how about the training effect? Which training model may be better? We did not find consistent conclusion about these questions in China. This study aims to set up an effective and convenient model to training GPs in dementia early recognition. A total of 152 GPs in Beijing will be enrolled and be randomly divided into two groups. One group will firstly have lessons about dementia early recognition and then receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 6 months. Another group will firstly have lessons about dementia early recognition and then receive face-to-face supervision and key messages by Wechat about dementia early recognition once a month in the following 3 months. The score of knowledge and attitude about dementia early recognition, the accuracy of analyzing dementia cases, the usage of dementia screening scales and the referral rate of dementia will be evaluated at different time point respectively. This study will provide evidence for training GPs effectively in dementia early recognition in the future and will promote dementia early recognition in community.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of an Enhanced Training on Primary Care Providers Knowledge, Attitudes, Service and Skills of Dementia Detection: A Cluster Randomized Trial.
   Lv X, Zhao M, Li T, Yuan C, et al · · 2021 · cited 8× · PMID 34367045 · DOI 10.3389/fneur.2021.651826