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Source
Brief title
Health condition
incontinence, incontinentie, incontinence care, proces of incontinence care, proces incontinentiezorg, quality of life, kwaliteit van leven, field test, IncoSense Smart
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Does the IncoSense Smart device indicate the exact right moment of exchanging the incotinense material.
Secondary outcome
Increase Quality of Life
Decrease costs
Background summary
Incontinence is frequent among clients living in a health facility. Little is known of how often pads are exchanged too early or too late. The IncoSense Smart device is develloped to determine the appropriate time of exchanging the incontinence pads.
This study investigates whether the IncoSense Smart device does indicate the correct time of change incontinence pads. And therefore contributes to improve incontinence care, and correspondingly improves Quality of Life and decrease costs.
Study objective
The aim of this study is to assess whether the use of the IncoSense Smart leads to improvement in efficiency of incontinence care, better quality of life of the clients and reduction of the cost.
Study design
Baseline measurement of usual care.
Between week 1 and 2 of the trial, the data from the IncoSense Smart device are compared with the observations. Afterwards, focus group interviews with both clients and caregivers.
Intervention
Incontinent clients are provided with the IncoSense Smart device for two weeks. In the first week client receive usual incontinence care. In the second week care takes place when the IncoSense Smart device indicates that the inconitense material needs to be swapped.
Jeanne Heijkers
Zuyd University of applied sciences- p.o. box 55
Heerlen 6400 AN
The Netherlands
Jeanne.heijkers@zuyd.nl
Jeanne Heijkers
Zuyd University of applied sciences- p.o. box 55
Heerlen 6400 AN
The Netherlands
Jeanne.heijkers@zuyd.nl
Inclusion criteria
clients with incontinence who wear incontinence material, who are not able to change incontinence pads independently
living in a health facility
Exclusion criteria
clients who are able to change incontinence pads independently
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL5482 |
| NTR-old | NTR5617 |
| Other | METC Atrium-Orbis-Zuyd (Zuyderland MC) : 15N82 |