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Improving agitation for people with dementia in care homes: A Cluster Randomised Control Trial to help train care home staff.
Led by Professor Gill Livingston and co-led by Dr. Penny Rapaport
What is Stream 3?
Stream 3 is building upon the findings of stream 1 and 2, as well as in depth interviews with care home staff to develop an intervention for people with dementia living in care homes. This took the form of a staff training program, which has been tested it in a cluster randomised controlled trial.
This manualised intervention for care home staff was adapted from START, our manual based HTA-START intervention which effectively and cost-effectively decreased depression in family carers of people with dementia, and based upon a systematic review of non drug treatments for agitation of people with moderate and severe dementia living in care homes.
Alongside developing and testing the intervention, we will also develop a strategic approach to altering care home culture as a template for future care home interventions, developing a toolkit including guides to delivery and integration with the final version. The aim is that managing agitation will be a core intervention like meeting nutrition and hygiene needs.
How's it going?
Recruitment, delivery of interventions and follow up data collection for Stream 3 has now finished. The study is in the analysis stage.
For any enquiries about this stream, please contact: marque@ucl.ac.uk
Information for participants
Recruitment has now closed for this stream. However, if you or your relative have participated in MARQUE stream 3 or you are interested in the study, you can download the information sheets here: Information Sheets and Consent Forms for Stream 3
