Dementia Care Training With Virtual Reality and Support for Home Care Staff

NCT04788992 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: YLH-IRB-10815
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 124
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to evaluate a dementia care training with virtual reality and peer support program on dementia care knowledge, attitude, care competence, work stress, and empathy of home care staff.

Conditions

Dementia

Keywords

Home care staff; dementia care; virtual reality

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale

  To evaluate care staff's knowledge of dementia, range from 0-50

  6 months

• Approach to Dementia Questionnaire

  To evaluate care staff's attitude toward Dementia, range from 19-95

  6 moths

• Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale

  To evaluate care staff's competence of caring for people with dementia, range from 16-68

  6 months

• Jefferson Scale of Empathy

  To evaluate care staff's level of empathy toward patients, score range from 20-140

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Simple Work Stress Scale

  6 moths

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

receive dementia care training

Other: Intervention group

Control group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

receive dementia care training without virtual reality activity

Other: Control group

Interventions

Intervention group OTHER

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books, dementia virtual reality activity and peer support program.

Intervention group

Control group OTHER

Dementia care training consists of dementia care e-books and peer support program without dementia virtual reality activity

Control group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• age 20 to 65 years
• Taiwanese nationality
• had worked as a home care staff for at least three months
• had experience in providing home care for patients with dementia
• had a mobile phone or tablet and regular access to the internet

You may not qualify if:

• can not provide informed consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tzu Chi University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Mennonite Social Welfare foundation

Hualien City, 970, Taiwan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Dementia

Interventions

Control Groups

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Epidemiologic Research Design; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Research Design; Methods

Study Officials

• Huei-Chuan Sung, PhD

  Tzu Chi University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate professor

Model Details: two-group cluster randomised controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 2, 2021
• First Posted: March 9, 2021
• Study Start: March 29, 2021
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2021
• Study Completion: October 31, 2021
• Last Updated: August 6, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)