UMIN ID: UMIN000002102
Registered date:01/07/2009
The support system for dementia patient with bidirectional IT communications
Basic Information
| Recruitment status | |
|---|---|
| Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied | Dementia |
| Date of first enrollment | 2008/05/01 |
| Target sample size | 10 |
| Countries of recruitment | Japan |
| Study type | Interventional |
| Intervention(s) | For a period of 12 weeks, a diabetic patient and his caregiver communicate with a doctor or nurse through the TV terephone for 30 minutes once a week. Intercommunication content are nursing-care consultation, compliance check, playing game together with dementia patient, exercise, recognition test, and so on. Dementia patients carry on being treated as an outpaint only and they answer the recognition test. |
Outcome(s)
| Primary Outcome | Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), HDS-R, Clinical dementia rating (CDR), Pines Burnout Scale, Zarit nursing-care burden scale, Philadelphia Geriatric Center(PGC) moral scale, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) |
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| Secondary Outcome |
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
| Age minimum | 73years-old |
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| Age maximum | 87years-old |
| Gender | Male and Female |
| Include criteria | |
| Exclude criteria | Not dementia, Difficulty in speaking |
Related Information
| Primary Sponsor | Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University |
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| Secondary Sponsor | |
| Source(s) of Monetary Support | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| Secondary ID(s) |
Contact
| public contact | |
| Name | |
| Address | 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan |
| Telephone | |
| ethcom@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp | |
| Affiliation | Kyoto University Medical ethics committee |
| scientific contact | |
| Name | Ayae Kinoshita |
| Address | 53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan |
| Telephone | |
| Affiliation | Kyoto Univesity Home medical care nursing |