NCT01324219

Changing Talk to Reduce Resistiveness to Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 202 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are interested in reducing problem behaviors of nursing home residents with dementia that make providing care difficult. The investigators call these behaviors resistiveness to care. Previous research has found that resistiveness to care occurs more frequently when staff use certain types of communication. An inservice program will be provided to all nursing staff in your nursing home to teach staff about communication practices to reduce resistiveness to care. The research study will see whether changing communication will reduce resident resistiveness to care. If effective, the communication training may then be used to improve care in other facilities. By doing this study, researchers hope to learn if changing communication practices will reduce resistiveness to care in nursing home residents with dementia.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Staff	Your participation will involve participating in video recordings of nursing care for a participating resident for 2-hour periods on 8 to 10 days. Communication training will be provided to staff in participating nursing homes during paid work hours regardless of their participation in the video recordings. The nursing home you work in may be randomly selected to receive the communication training at the start of the study or after a 3-month delay.
BEHAVIORAL	Resident	Your participation will involve participating in video recordings of nursing care for 2-hour periods on 8 to 10. Communication training will be provided to staff in participating facilities during paid work hours regardless of their participation in the video recordings. Your nursing home may be randomly selected to receive the communication training at the start of the study or after a 3-month delay.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2011-03-28
• Last updated: 2017-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States