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Nursing home staff training in dementia care
— a systematic review of evaluated programs | | Author(s) | Bettina Kuske, Stephanie Hanns, Tobias Luck |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 19, no 5, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 818-841 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_IPG |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Care home staff ; In-service training ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | A thorough literature search was conducted of in-service interventions for caregivers of people with dementia in nursing homes, published between 1999 and 2004. The aim was to obtain and overview of the evaluated interventions and to characterise their methodological quality. Of the 21 studies identified, most were published in the US, and most were of poor methodological quality. Although nearly all reported positive effects, their results must be interpreted cautiously due to methodological weaknesses. Extensive interventions with ongoing support successfully demonstrated implementation of new knowledge. Owing to methodological weaknesses and a lack of follow-up evaluations, little or no evidence existed for the efficacy of particularly, the transfer of knowledge in simpler interventions when reinforcing and enabling factors were not present. This systematic review highlights the need for well-defined methodologically improved studies, providing conclusive evidence of the effects of intervention types to help improve the quality of dementia care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071114501 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: QRM: QWD: 4C: 64A |
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