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ID
Source
Health condition
Decision support for district nurses and dementia case managers; problem assessment; advices on solutions; facilitating 'aging in place'
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Level of confidence of professionals with regard to detection of problems and the advice on possible solutions
Secondary outcome
Uniformity in decision making with regard to the problem assessment;
Perceived added value of the application according to the participants;
Usability of the decision support tool
Background summary
With a growing emphasis on community-based dementia care, nurses and case managers play an
important role in identifying practical problems hindering people with dementia (PwD) to live at home
and advising them on possible solutions to facilitate aging in place. Both are complex and challenging
tasks for professionals. To support nurses and case managers with these tasks a decision support tool
in the form of an application (app) on a tablet PC has been developed. The aim of this study is to
evaluate the efficacy in terms of sense of confidence of professionals with regard to problem
assessment and advices on possible solutions, uniformity in problem identification, added value of the
app and its usability.
The study design consists of a randomized controlled trial with two arms (intervention and control
group). In a laboratory setting nurses, case managers and nursing students are asked to analyze once
a case describing the situation of community-dwelling person with dementia and to provide
suggestions for possible solutions to deal with the detected problems. Participants in the interventions
are asked to use the decision support app while participants in the control group were asked to use
their usual way of working.
Study design
Immediately after intervention is completed
Intervention
The intervention is a decision support tool (application installed on a tablet PC) supporting professionals in conducting a problem assessment and giving advices on possible solutions aiming to facilitate aging in place of people with dementia.
Participants in the intervention group should conduct a problem assessment and give advices on possible soultions for problems which can hinder people with dementia to live at home. They are asked to conduct the problem assessment and advices on possible solutions according to their usual way of working complemented by the decision support app.
Particpants in the control group are asked to conduct the problem assessment and advices on possible solutions according to their usual way of working only.
Inclusion criteria
- professionals working as district nurse or dementia case manager;
- nursing students (third or fourth year) with experience in community-based care
Exclusion criteria
Professionals who participated in the development of the application
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL6036 |
| NTR-old | NTR6167 |
| Other | : grant no. 2013/15434 |