OPTIMAL in NH Residents With Dementia
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
In brief
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 using individualized, person-centered behavioral strategies.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05255068
- Run by
- University of Iowa
- People needed
- 111
- Starts
- 2022-05-16
- Expected to finish
- 2022-11-05
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-03-13
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 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
You may not qualify if…
- 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)
Where it is running
- Iowa Vateran's Home — Marshalltown, Iowa, United States
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