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Family-centered Function-focused Care (Fam-FFC) for Alzheimer's Disease

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Research Sponsored by Penn State University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

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Must have

Be older than 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 6 months post-discharge

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will explore how well a specific type of care (Family-centered Function Focused Care or Fam-FFC) works for preventing functional decline and other complications related to hospitalization in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Eligible Conditions

Alzheimer's Disease

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 6 months post-discharge

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~6 months post-discharge

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 6 months post-discharge for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Behavior

Delirium occurrence

Delirium severity

+4 more

Secondary outcome measures

Caregiver Burden

Caregiver Strain

Desire to Institutionalize

+1 more

Other outcome measures

health care cost

post-acute health care utilization

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Fam-FFCExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

The intervention consists of :Component 1- Environmental and Policy Assessments; Component II- Education of Nursing Staff; Component III-Ongoing Training/Motivation of Nursing Staff. The Fam-FFC Nurse will work with the champions to mentor and motivate nursing staff to provide: (a) role modeling Fam-FFC, reinforcing performance of Fam-FFC, and brainstorming about ways to overcome challenges; (b) highlighting staff role models; Component IV Implementation of the FamPath Pathway which includes: (a) information on the admitting condition, diagnostics, treatment;(b) family/patient education; (c) transitional hand-off to post-acute providers; and (d) post-acute follow-up to provide ongoing education and modification of the function-focused care plan.

Group II: Attention Control (Fam- FFC Ed-only)Active Control1 Intervention

Education of the nursing staff in participating hospital units (exactly as offered in treatment sites), and education of family caregivers about hospital orientation and reinforcement of discharge teaching (medications/treatments, medical follow-up).

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Penn State UniversityLead Sponsor

354 Previous Clinical Trials

125,146 Total Patients Enrolled

National Institutes of Health (NIH)NIH

2,690 Previous Clinical Trials

6,950,525 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What are the fundamental goals of this scientific experiment?

"The primary measure of this trial will be patient functionality 6 months after hospital discharge. Secondary measures include the Desire to Institutionalize Scale, Zarit Burden Interview, and Preparedness for Caregiving Scale."

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Is there still room for enrolment in this research endeavor?

"As per the data hosted on clinicaltrials.gov, this trial is no longer actively recruiting participants. Initially posted in November 2017 and last edited September 2022, 766 other studies are presently looking for patients to enrol."

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Recent research and studies

TrialsJournal

Reducing Disability via a Family Centered Intervention for Acutely Ill Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Protocol of a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial (fam-ffc Study)

Boltz, Marie, Ashley Kuzmik, Barbara Resnick, Rebecca Trotta, Jacqueline Mogle, Rhonda BeLue, Douglas Leslie, and James E. Galvin. 2018. “Reducing Disability via a Family Centered Intervention for Acutely Ill Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Protocol of a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial (fam-ffc Study)”. Trials. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2875-1.

clinicaltrials.govStudy

A Family-centered Intervention for Acutely-ill Persons With Dementia

Marie Boltz 2017. "A Family-centered Intervention for Acutely-ill Persons With Dementia". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03046121.