NCT04256382

Dementia Pain Management Educational Program

Dementia Pain Management Knowledge Scale Development and Impact of an Educational Program on Hospital Nurses' Knowledge Evaluation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 285 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to develop and test a scale for exploring hospital nurses' knowledge about dementia pain and dementia pain management.

Detailed description

The researcher recruited 285 nurses from three hospitals, and divided them into the experimental group and the comparison group. The experimental group took two-hour online course about dementia pain care in two weeks. The comparison group took two-hour online course about dementia care in two weeks. The nurses performed a post-test after the two-week course immediately; two weeks later, the second post-test was performed again.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	dementia pain care education	Participants are educated about dementia pain care.
OTHER	dementia care education	Participants are educated about dementia pain care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-27
• Primary completion: 2019-12-24
• Completion: 2020-02-03
• First posted: 2020-02-05
• Last updated: 2020-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan