The impact of aged care resident’s written life-stories on aged care staff attitudes

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616001137482
• Date of registration: 22/08/2016
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: A/Prof Sunil Bhar
• Public title: The impact of aged care resident’s written life-stories on aged care staff attitudes
• Scientific title: The impact of aged care resident’s written life-stories on aged care staff attitudes
• Date of first enrolment: 31/08/2016
• Target sample size: 40
• Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616001137482.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial;

Countries of recruitment

Australia

Contacts

• Name: A/Prof Sunil Bhar

• Name: A/Prof Sunil Bhar

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Participants must be an employee of a residential aged care facility, provide care to residents of the facility, have a minimum grade 7 level of English, and be willing to provide informed consent for participating in the study.
Exclusion criteria: Level of English grade less than 7.

Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

Aged care staff attitudes assessed using the KRS measure.;
Aged care staff attitudes assessed using the KRS measure.

Public Health - Health service research

Intervention(s)

This project examines the impact of aged care resident's written life stories on the attitudes of professional care staff. The project examines if care staff show a change in their attitudes and knowledge about a resident after reading a 2-4 page story written by university journalism students, about the resident. The story showcases an aspect of the resident’s life, such as important achievements, memorable experiences, valued relationships. Three sessions were held for 45-60 minute duration. The sessions were face-to-face one-on-one sessions between each resident and the journalism student. and occurred once per week over a 3-week period. The sessions provided information for the story to the journalism students.

Primary Outcome(s)

Staff attitudes about the residents using the KRS (as above)[Participants in each condition are tested twice (pre-test and post-test). Pre-tests are administered immediately before either reading the residents' stories (E) or reading file notes (C). Post-tests are administered immediately after reading the residents' stories (E) or reading file notes (C). ]

Difference between the pre and post-test score on the Knowledge of Resident Scale. This scale was developed by Bhar, Silver, Collins, Bhowmik and Daziel (manuscript in preparation) to measure knowledge of staff about the residents.
[Participants in each condition are tested twice (pre-test and post-test). Pre-tests are administered immediately before either reading the residents' stories (E) or reading file notes (C). Post-tests are administered immediately after reading the residents' stories (E) or reading file notes (C). ]

Secondary Outcome(s)

None[None]

Secondary ID(s)

None

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Swinburne University of Technology

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Swinburne Human Research Ethics Committee (SUHREC)