Education Program for Enhancing Healthcare Students' Attitudes Toward People Living With Dementia

NCT06122623 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: UAirlangga
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 400
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this single-arm pre-post study is to examine the effectiveness of gaming-based dementia educational programs for enhancing healthcare students' attitudes toward people living with dementia (PLWD). The main questions we intend to answer follow:

• What are the attitudes toward PLWD, intentions to help PLWD, knowledge of dementia, and stigma of PLWD before and after participation in the gaming-based dementia education program?
• What is the effect of gaming-based dementia education programs on enhancing attitudes toward PLWD? Participants will volunteer for the class education program, which will last about 90 minutes. Participants can attend the class only once. This education program based on gaming tools will be structured with a lecture on dementia, N-impro (gaming tools), and bad/good short dramas. The gaming education program will be included in dementia-related courses.

Conditions

Dementia

Keywords

Aged; Dementia; Healthcare student; Education program; Long-term care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Attitude toward people living with dementia

  We will examine participants' attitudes toward people living with dementia with the Attitudes Toward People with Dementia Scale (Kim K, Kuroda K. Factors related to attitudes toward people with dementia development attitude toward dementia scale and dementia knowledge scale. Bulletin of Social Medicine. 2011; 28 (1), 43-55). The original study was published in Japanese. We performed forward-backwards translation to produce the Indonesian language version. The total number of items in the questionnaire is 14. This scale has a 4-point Linkert scale ranging from 1 (disagree) to 4 (agree). There consists of four subscales: tolerance (five items), refusal (four items), feeling of distance (three items), and affinity 8two items). The total score ranged from 14 to 56, with a higher score indicating a more favourable attitude.

  Time Frame: 5-7 minutes for completion of the questionnaire

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Knowledge of dementia

  Time Frame: 5-7 minutes

• Intention for helping behaviors toward people living with dementia

  Time Frame: 2-3 minutes

• Fraboni's Scale of Ageism (FSA)

  Time Frame: 5-7 minutes

Study Arms (1)

A single-arm pre-post approach will be employed in this study;

OTHER

There will be no control group. All participants will receive the same treatment. The intervention to be used will be a gaming education program conducted once with each participant.

Other: Health Education

Interventions

Health Education OTHER

As previously mentioned, the intervention for this study will be a gaming education program that will be conducted once with each participant. Implementation of the program will occur at different times. Each performance will include a maximum of 60 participants who will be divided into small groups within the same room. Seven to 10 participants will comprise a small group, and each group will have one facilitator. The facilitator will be either a member of the research team or a Health lecturer who will be recruited and trained by the Japanese and Indonesian research teams.

A single-arm pre-post approach will be employed in this study;

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Healthcare students enrolled in the designated semester and courses that align with the program's implementation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universitas Airlangga: lead
• Tokyo University: collaborator
• Kawasaki City College of Nursing: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Universitas Airlangga

Surabaya, East Java, 60115, Indonesia

Location

Related Publications (10)

• Fraboni, M., Saltstone, R., & Hughes, S. (1990). The Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA): An Attempt at a More Precise Measure of Ageism. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 9(1), 56-66.

  BACKGROUND

• Lane AP, Yu FCH. Person-centered attitudes mediate the association between dementia knowledge and help-giving intentions in Singapore. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Mar;32(3):413-414. doi: 10.1017/S1041610219000796. No abstract available.

  PMID: 31309909 BACKGROUND

• Blay SL, Toledo Pisa Peluso E. Public stigma: the community's tolerance of Alzheimer disease. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;18(2):163-71. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181bea900.

  PMID: 20104072 RESULT

• Brannelly T. Sustaining citizenship: people with dementia and the phenomenon of social death. Nurs Ethics. 2011 Sep;18(5):662-71. doi: 10.1177/0969733011408049.

  PMID: 21893577 RESULT

• Harada, K., Sugisawa, H., Shibata, H., Yamada, Y., & Sugihara, Y. (2004). Measurement and Correlates of Ageism Among Japanese Young Men Living in Urban Areas. The Gerontologist, 44(Special_Issue_I), 1-672.

  RESULT

• Kim, K., & Kuroda, K. (2011). Factors related to attitudes toward people with dementia: Development Attitude Toward Dementia Scale and Dementia Knowledge Scale. Bulletin of Social Medicine, 28(1), 43-56 (in Japanese).

  RESULT

• Malta S, Doyle C. Butler's three constructs of ageism in Australasian Journal on Ageing [corrected]. Australas J Ageing. 2016 Dec;35(4):232-235. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12363. No abstract available.

  PMID: 27933747 RESULT

• Matsumoto H, Igarashi A, Sakka M, Takaoka M, Kugai H, Ito K, Yamamoto-Mitani N. A Two-Step Model for Encouraging the General Public to Exhibit Helping Behaviors Toward People Living With Dementia. Innov Aging. 2022 Apr 14;6(3):igac023. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igac023. eCollection 2022.

  PMID: 35663276 RESULT

• Stites SD, Milne R, Karlawish J. Advances in Alzheimer's imaging are changing the experience of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2018 Mar 19;10:285-300. doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2018.02.006. eCollection 2018.

  PMID: 29780873 RESULT

• Sari DW, Kugai H, Igarashi A, Takaoka M, Matsumoto H, Suzuki H, Wu J, Fitryasari R, Nasifah IA, Has EMM, Yamamoto-Mitani N. Education Program for Enhancing Health Care Students' Attitudes Toward People Living With Dementia: Protocol for a Single-Arm Pre-Post Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Sep 18;13:e62654. doi: 10.2196/62654.

  PMID: 39293050 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Dementia

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Study Officials

• Dianis Wulan Sari, Ph.D

  Universitas Airlangga

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 2, 2023
• First Posted: November 8, 2023
• Study Start: November 22, 2023
• Primary Completion: May 30, 2024
• Study Completion: July 30, 2024
• Last Updated: November 19, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

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