Significant Activities in the Integrated Person-centered Care Model

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexMale
Age60+
SponsorUniversidad de Burgos

About this trial

The increasing life expectancy and global aging population necessitate changes in long-term gerontological services based on Person-Centred Care approaches. This study aims to improve Person-Centred Care in geriatric centers through meaningful activities and the role of occupational therapists and direct care professionals in developing these activities. A descriptive cross-sectional quasi-experimental design was proposed, with 10 participants.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

That the direct care worker has a degree as a nursing assistant, dependency care technician, geroculturist or certificate of professionalism.

The worker must speak and understand Spanish.

The residence must offer service during the day, in the morning or afternoon shift.

Workers must have been with the department for more than 4 months.

Disqualifiers

Workers who work night shift only.

Workers on rotating shifts in all departments of the residence.

Workers absent at the time of the study due to temporary leave, vacations or other causes.

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • meaningful activities

    Other intervention

    The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 27 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.

  • other activities

    Other intervention

    The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 27 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.

Treatment groups

10 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: single groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: CONTROL GROUPExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Kruskal-Wallis test

To compare the medians of the groups

Time frame
3 months
2

Spearman's correlation coefficient

This measure allows us to determine the strength and direction of the association between the variables

Time frame
3 months

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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