Status:
COMPLETED
OPTIMAL in NH Residents With Dementia
Lead Sponsor:
University of Iowa
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Conditions:
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to develop and refine OPTIMAL and evaluate its feasibility, fidelity, and usefulness. The OPTIMAL is designed to teach staff to effectively engage residents in eating usin...
Detailed Description
This study developed and refined OPTIMAL, and evaluated its feasibility, fidelity, and usefulness. We used mixed methods (i.e., focus groups, a pilot single-group repeated measures) to refine and test...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- The investigators will recruit direct care staff, families of residents, and residents with dementia from NH sites following the exclusion and inclusion criteria after attrition rates are considered.
- Residents
- ≥ 55 years
- Diagnosed as having ADRD based on medical records
- Identified by NH staff as requiring mealtime assistance
- Having a legally authorized representative (LAR) providing informed written consent
- Staffs
- ≥18 years
- English speaking
- A permanent facility employee
- Provide direct mealtime care for a resident participant at least twice a week over the previous month
- Families
- ≥18 years
- English speaking
- A family member of the resident who is living at the NH study site at the time of the study
- Having experience of delivering mealtime care to their resident family members
Exclusion
- Residents
- Have a documented diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, or swallowing disorder,
- Do not eat orally (e.g., parenteral/IV feedings, feeding tubes)
- Unable to hear or see staff even with glasses and/or hearing aids (e.g., uncorrected visual or hearing impairment)
- Stay in the NH study site for less than 12 weeks at the time of recruitment/consent/assent (e.g., terminally ill receiving hospice services, and/or receiving post-hospital skilled rehabilitation) that may not allow enough time for obtaining consent/assent, and scheduling days for video recording sessions across three-time points (baseline, and 6- and 12- weeks post-baseline)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 16 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 5 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
111 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05255068
Start Date
May 16 2022
End Date
November 5 2022
Last Update
March 13 2024
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Iowa Vateran's Home
Marshalltown, Iowa, United States, 50158