NCT05814276

San Rocco Study: Implementation of the Non-pharmacological Therapies for People With Dementia Living in Nursing Home

Completed NA Last updated 14 April 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Training on non-pharmacological therapies' methodology in Nursing Home in 36 participants. Completed in 31 January 2023.

Timeline

11 February 2022

Primary endpoint
31 January 2023

31 January 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Associazione Ginco Ticino
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	36
Start date	11 February 2022
Primary completion	31 January 2023
Estimated completion	31 January 2023
Sites	1 location across Switzerland

Drugs / interventions tested

• Training on non-pharmacological therapies' methodology

Conditions studied

• Nursing Home — all drugs for Nursing Home →
• Dementia — all drugs for Dementia →
• Staff — all drugs for Staff →

Sponsor

Associazione Ginco Ticino

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Nursing Home or Dementia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The goals of this clinical trial are 1) to estimate the number of professional caregivers and the time spent to carry out the non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia and 2) to evaluate differences between professional caregivers trained and non-trained to non-pharmacological therapies for people with dementia in term of caregivers' burnout and well-being of people with dementia living in nursing home.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How long does it take professional caregivers to implement and carry out non-pharmacological therapies?
* How many caregivers are needed to start and carry out non-pharmacological therapies?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve the quality of life of people with dementia?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies improve professional caregiver burnout, sense of competence and ethical climate in nursing home?
* Do the non-pharmacological therapies reduce family caregivers' stress?

Participants will attend ten sessions:

* five theoretical meetings on dementia and non-pharmacological therapies;
* five supervision meetings on the methodology for implementing non-pharmacological therapies based on discussions of cases.

The investigators will compare the experimental group with an usual care control group to see if there are improvements in term of the quality of life of the resident perceived by the team, professional caregivers burnout, sense of competence of the carers and the ethical climate at the workplace.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.