Enhancing SKIN Health and Safety in Aged CARE
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Dry Skin
- Incontinence Associated Dermatitis
- Intertrigo
- Pressure Ulcer
- Pruritus
- Skin Care
- Skin Tear
- Xerosis Cutis
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 65 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Objectives and aims: Aged and care dependent patients suffer from many adverse skin conditions like xerosis cutis (including pruritus), pressure ulcers, skin tears, intertrigo and incontinence-associated dermatitis. Separate preventive strategies for these particular risks and diseases are available...
Objectives and aims: Aged and care dependent patients suffer from many adverse skin conditions like xerosis cutis (including pruritus), pressure ulcers, skin tears, intertrigo and incontinence-associated dermatitis. Separate preventive strategies for these particular risks and diseases are available and partly implemented. Although distinct clinical diagnoses, there are substantial overlaps in terms of etiology (e.g. skin fragility, immobility) pathophysiology, prevention (e.g. safe handling, off-loading) and treatment (e.g. skin protection and care). Facilities are challenged to implement fragmented, condition-specific guidelines, neglecting shared etiologies and prevention and treatment principles, which has been shown to be an important barrier for implementation of evidence-based practice. Recently an evidence-based comprehensive skin care algorithm was developed. The objective of this trial is to investigate the feasibility of the implementation of this skin care package, to describe context factors for implementation, to estimate effect sizes and intracluster coefficients. Study design: An exploratory cluster randomized trial in aged nursing home residents will be conducted. The cluster design was chosen to avoid contamination between groups. A total of n = 500 residents from n = 20 nursing homes (randomly selected from the population of nursing homes of the state of Berlin) will be included in the study. In the intervention group (n = 10 nursing homes), the developed evidence-based algorithm will be implemented. The control group (n = 10 nursing homes) receives the usual standard care of the respective nursing home.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03824886
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jan Kottner, PhD Charite University, Berlin, Germany
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