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More than 400,000 people in the UK live in care homes. These individuals are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19; many are frail and the majority have concurrent physical health problems and dementia. This group are at the highest risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19 and are dependent on a stretched care workforce. The isolation, together with the stresses and distressing nature of the current work environment is also likely to have an impact on the mental health and well-being of care staff. It is vital to provide good quality support to enable care staff to remain resilient, and to enable good quality care that maintains the well-being of residents with dementia and reduces emerging neuropsychiatric symptoms in residents without increasing harmful sedative medications. COVID E-WHELD is based on the optimized WHELD training intervention on successfully completed in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) in 86 care homes, more than 1000 people with dementia. WHELD reduced use of anti-psychotics, improved agitation and overall neuropsychiatric symptoms, improved quality of life and reduced mortality for people with dementia. A digital version of WHELD (eWHELD) with virtual supervision in a further care home RCT including 130 people with dementia has demonstrated benefits for staff carers and improvements in the quality of life of people with dementia, with eWHELD combined with virtual supervision, but not with e-learning alone. The current project will evaluate a COVID-19 adapted version of eWHELD to address current needs of care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be undertaken in a 2 arm, 4 month, randomized cluster RCT in 1280 care homes (allowing for 75% drop out with COVID-19 outbreaks) to determine whether COVID-19 adapted eWHELD improves quality of life and mental health for people with dementia in care homes and the mental health of care staff.
Description: Validated quality of life measure for people with dementia, assessed by informant interview. Minimum score = 32 Maximum score = 128; Higher score denotes better outcome.
Measure: Dementia Quality of Life - DEMQOL proxy Time: 4 monthsDescription: Standardized assessment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with dementia, assessed by informant interview. Minimum score = 0 Maximum score = 144; Higher score denotes worse outcome.
Measure: Neuropsychiatric Inventory Time: 4 monthsDescription: Use of antipsychotic and other psychotropic medications from prescribing charts
Measure: Psychotropic medications Time: 4 monthsDescription: Staff confidence measure, self completed questionnaire. Minimum score = 9 Maximum score = 45; Higher score denotes better outcome.
Measure: Confidence in Dementia (CODE) Scale Time: 4 monthsDescription: Perceived self efficacy of care staff, self completed questionnaire. Minimum score = 17 Maximum score = 68; Higher score denotes better outcome.
Measure: Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff (SCIDS) scale Time: 4 monthsDescription: Mental Health of care staff, self reported questionnaire. Minimum score = 0 Maximum score = 27; Higher score denotes worse outcome.
Measure: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Time: 4 monthsDescription: A standardized instrument for measuring generic health related quality of life, used for Health economic evaluation. Visual Analogue scale minimum score = 0, maximum score = 100. Higher score denotes better outcome.
Measure: EQ5D (Euroquol 5D - 5 dimensions) Time: 4 monthsDescription: to collect service utilization data for health economics. Assesses cost of service provision; as such no min/max values. Higher value denotes worse cost outcome.
Measure: Client Service Receipt Inventory Time: 4 monthsDescription: Ordinal scale to rate progress towards personalized goals for people with dementia as a process outcome. Scale for each goal: Minimum score = 1 Maximum score = 4; Higher score denotes better outcome.
Measure: Goal Attainment Scaling Time: 4 monthsAlphabetical listing of all HPO terms. Navigate: Correlations Clinical Trials
Data processed on September 26, 2020.
An HTML report was created for each of the unique drugs, MeSH, and HPO terms associated with COVID-19 clinical trials. Each report contains a list of either the drug, the MeSH terms, or the HPO terms. All of the terms in a category are displayed on the left-hand side of the report to enable easy navigation, and the reports contain a list of correlated drugs, MeSH, and HPO terms. Further, all reports contain the details of the clinical trials in which the term is referenced. Every clinical trial report shows the mapped HPO and MeSH terms, which are also hyperlinked. Related HPO terms, with their associated genes, protein mutations, and SNPs are also referenced in the report.
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