Feasibility of the NIDUS-professional home carer training intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a home care workers’ training and support intervention, from the perspectives of home care workers, clients living with dementia and family carers: stream three of the NIDUS (New interventions for Independence in Dementia) programme
IRAS ID
278192
Contact name
Claudia Cooper
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Research Governance Manager, Joint Research Office
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN15757555
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Data protection registration, Z6364106 2020 02 136
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 6 months, days
Research summary
We want to test feasibility of two linked interventions, NIDUS-professional (a training and support programme for home care workers) and NIDUS-family (an intervention for people living with dementia and their family carers). We will deliver the interventions in home care agencies, so that all home care workers receive training and all clients living with dementia are offered NIDUS-family sessions. We plan that the interventions work together, to improve the care people living with dementia receive.
In phase 1 (intervention pilot), a pair of trained and supervised researchers will deliver the six training and support sessions in one group of 6-8 home carers recruited from one agency. We will ask home care workers to invite 2-3 of their clients who have a formal dementia diagnosis and a regular family carer, to receive NIDUS family. The purpose of phase 1 is to try out the newly coproduced NIDUS-professional intervention and how it links with the NIDUS-family intervention. We will not collect outcome measures. We will conduct a qualitative focus group with home care worker participants after the training, with additional individual qualitative interviews with home care workers unable or unwilling to attend the focus group, and with the home care manager, NIDUS researchers who delivered it and family carers and clients with dementia who received NIDUS-family.
In our randomised feasibility trial (phase 2), outcomes will be completed with all home care workers, clients with dementia (diagnosed or detected on screening) and family carers from three home care agencies at baseline and post-intervention (6 months). Two home care agencies will be randomised to receive the training intervention, and one to the control condition. We will conduct focus groups with home carers and individual interviews with managers, clients and family carers involved in the interventions, to understand if the interventions work, how they work.REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/LO/0567
Date of REC Opinion
22 May 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion