UMIN-CTR Clinical Trial

Unique ID issued by UMIN UMIN000020479
Receipt number R000023658
Scientific Title Evaluation of an education program for nurses on their knowledge and attitude of end-of -life care towards older adults
Date of disclosure of the study information 2016/01/07
Last modified on 2020/04/12 12:31:17

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Basic information

Public title

Evaluation of an education program for nurses on their knowledge and attitude of end-of -life care towards older adults

Acronym

Evaluation of an education program for nurses on end-of -life care towards older adults

Scientific Title

Evaluation of an education program for nurses on their knowledge and attitude of end-of -life care towards older adults

Scientific Title:Acronym

Evaluation of an education program for nurses on end-of -life care towards older adults

Region

Japan


Condition

Condition

Nurses who take care of older adults with end of life stage

Classification by specialty

Nursing Adult

Classification by malignancy

Others

Genomic information

NO


Objectives

Narrative objectives1

1.We would like to clarify the effectiveness for nurse's attitude and knowledge of end-of-life care by two days educational program on end- of-life care towards older adults
2.We would like to clarify the effectiveness for nurse's attitude and knowledge of end-of-life care by answering the nurses attitude and knowledge scale on EOL care survey for older adults
3.We would like to clarify the differences of each result to compare of both, the EOL educational program group and the answering scale group effect.

Basic objectives2

Efficacy

Basic objectives -Others


Trial characteristics_1

Confirmatory

Trial characteristics_2

Pragmatic

Developmental phase

Not applicable


Assessment

Primary outcomes

Nurse's attitude scale on end-of-life care towards older adults(six months later)

Key secondary outcomes

Nurse's knowledge scale on end-of-life care towards older adults(six months later)

Frommelt Attitude Toward Care Of Dying scale - Form B - Japanese short version(six months later)


Base

Study type

Interventional


Study design

Basic design

Parallel

Randomization

Non-randomized

Randomization unit


Blinding

Open -no one is blinded

Control

No treatment

Stratification


Dynamic allocation


Institution consideration


Blocking


Concealment



Intervention

No. of arms

2

Purpose of intervention

Educational,Counseling,Training

Type of intervention

Other

Interventions/Control_1

Subjects will attend two days educational program of End-of-life care towards older adults. That educational program is about End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium-Japan Geriatric (ELNEC-JG) .

Interventions/Control_2

None (Subjects who will not attend the educational program will answer the survey questionnaire on End-of-Life care attitude and knowledge.)

Interventions/Control_3


Interventions/Control_4


Interventions/Control_5


Interventions/Control_6


Interventions/Control_7


Interventions/Control_8


Interventions/Control_9


Interventions/Control_10



Eligibility

Age-lower limit


Not applicable

Age-upper limit


Not applicable

Gender

Male and Female

Key inclusion criteria

1.Educational program group
Nurses who meet criteria below;
1) The nurses who take care of older adults with end of life care setting.
2)The nurses who are interested in ELNEC-JG by seeing the advertisement of ELNEC-JG.
3)The nurses who agreed to participate on this research.

1.Questionnaire group
Nurses who meet criteria below;
1) The nurses who work in facilities which provide end-of life care for older adults frequently such as, hospitals which have a long term care ward and chronic care ward.
2)The nurses who agreed to participate on this research.

Key exclusion criteria

We don't have any exclusion criteria.

Target sample size

270


Research contact person

Name of lead principal investigator

1st name Hiroki
Middle name
Last name Fukahori

Organization

Graduate School of Health Care Sciences Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Division name

Department of System Management in Nursing

Zip code

133-8519

Address

1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

TEL

03-5803-5352

Email

hfukahori.kanr@tmd.ac.jp


Public contact

Name of contact person

1st name Akemi
Middle name Okumura
Last name Hiroshige

Organization

Graduate School of Health Care Sciences Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Division name

Department of System Management in Nursing

Zip code

133-8519

Address

1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

TEL

03-3813-6111(7234)

Homepage URL


Email

ns150011@tmd.ac.jp


Sponsor or person

Institute

Department of System Management in Nursing, Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Institute

Department

Personal name



Funding Source

Organization

The research grant on hospice palliative care from the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation.

Organization

Division

Category of Funding Organization

Non profit foundation

Nationality of Funding Organization

Japan


Other related organizations

Co-sponsor


Name of secondary funder(s)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research


IRB Contact (For public release)

Organization

the Ethics Committee at Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Address

1-5-45 Bunkyo-ku Yushima, Tokyo

Tel

03-3813-6111

Email

syomu1.adm@tmd.ac.jp


Secondary IDs

Secondary IDs

NO

Study ID_1


Org. issuing International ID_1


Study ID_2


Org. issuing International ID_2


IND to MHLW



Institutions

Institutions

東京医科歯科大学(東京都)
Tokyo Medical and Dental University


Other administrative information

Date of disclosure of the study information

2016 Year 01 Month 07 Day


Related information

URL releasing protocol

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/opn.12309

Publication of results

Published


Result

URL related to results and publications

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/opn.12309

Number of participants that the trial has enrolled

142

Results

The change in mean value of the attitude scale from baseline to 3 months (differences in the groups' attitude scores = 7.33; p = .004) and 6 months (differences in groups' attitude scores = 5.77; p = .044) was greater in the intervention group. Moreover, the mean knowledge scale score change from baseline to 3 months was greater in the intervention group (differences in groups' knowledge scores = 5.74; p < .001). There was no evidence of a change in this score between baseline and 6 months.

Results date posted

2020 Year 04 Month 12 Day

Results Delayed


Results Delay Reason


Date of the first journal publication of results

2020 Year 02 Month 27 Day

Baseline Characteristics

Most participants were female Registered Nurses. Mean nursing experience was 17.58 years, and 51.4% worked in a long-term care
hospital or facility.

Participant flow

In the intervention group, the questionnaire was distributed to 164 people, all of whom provided written consent and returned the questionnaire (100% response rate), and took the programme, with 121 responding through 6 months postintervention (73.8% response rate). In the control group, a total of 306 questionnaires were distributed to nine institutions providing EOL care; 174 respondents (56.9% response rate) provided written consent and returned the survey, while 141 respondents (46.1% response rate) responded through 6 months postsurvey. The analysis included 71 subjects with no missing values (43.3% response rate) and 71 controls (23. 2% response rate). The number of dropouts from baseline to analysis was 91 in the intervention group (56.7% dropout rate) and 103 in the
control group (59.2% dropout rate).

Adverse events

Nothing

Outcome measures

The EOL care nursing attitude scale for Japanese geriatric nurses (ELNAS-JG)
The EOL care nursing knowledge scale for Japanese geriatric nurses (ELNKS-JG)

Plan to share IPD


IPD sharing Plan description



Progress

Recruitment status

Completed

Date of protocol fixation

2015 Year 11 Month 27 Day

Date of IRB

2016 Year 01 Month 19 Day

Anticipated trial start date

2016 Year 01 Month 25 Day

Last follow-up date

2017 Year 07 Month 15 Day

Date of closure to data entry

2018 Year 04 Month 10 Day

Date trial data considered complete

2018 Year 12 Month 25 Day

Date analysis concluded

2019 Year 01 Month 15 Day


Other

Other related information



Management information

Registered date

2016 Year 01 Month 07 Day

Last modified on

2020 Year 04 Month 12 Day



Link to view the page

Value
https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000023658


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