NCT05964959

A Mouth Education Program for Dry Mouth

Dry Mouth in Patients With a Life-limiting Condition or Frailty: the Effect of a Nurse-led Patient Education Program

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 228 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Leiden University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this cluster based intervention trial is to evaluate the effect of a nurse-led patient education program on dry mouth in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty. The Mouth Educational Program (MEP) is a nurse-led patient education program, in which trained nurses use current clinical, palliative dry mouth guidelines in a structured manner to discuss causes, consequences and interventions with the patients and to create an appropriate treatment plan. This intervention will be compared to a control group receiving care as usual. Therefore, the main question it aims to answer is: Does a nurse-led patient education program reduce dry mouth complaints in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty? Participants will be asked to answer questionnaires and, when part of the intervention group, partake in the Mouth Educational Program (MEP).

Conditions

• Xerostomia
• End of Life
• Frailty
• Dry Mouth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mouth Educational Program	The Mouth Educational Program is a nurse-led patient education program for dry mouth in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty.
OTHER	Care as Usual	Care as usual is defined as the standard dry mouth care as provided by participants' own treating physicians.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-15
• Primary completion: 2024-12-01
• Completion: 2026-05-01
• First posted: 2023-07-28
• Last updated: 2023-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands