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    Effects of a psycho-educational intervention on direct care workers’ communicative behaviours with residents with dementia

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    2016
    Author
    Barbosa, Ana
    Marques, A.
    Sousa, L.
    Nolan, M.
    Figueiredo, D.
    Keyword
    Aged care facilities
    Communicative behaviour
    Dementia
    Direct care workers
    Person-centred care
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    © 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health Communication on 23 Sep 2015 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10410236.2014.965382
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    This study assessed the effects of a person-centred care based psycho-educational intervention on direct care workers’ communicative behaviours with people with dementia living in aged care facilities. An experimental study with a pre-posttest control group design was conducted in four aged care facilities. Two experimental facilities received an eight-weekly psycho-educational intervention aiming to develop workers’ knowledge about dementia, person-centred care competences and tools for stress management; control facilities received an education-only, with no support to deal with stress. A total of 332 morning care sessions, involving fifty-six direct care workers (female, mean age 44.72±9.02), were video-recorded before and two weeks after the intervention The frequency and duration of a list of verbal and non-verbal communicative behaviours were analysed. Within the experimental group there was a positive change from pre to post-test on the frequency of all workers’ communicative behaviours. Significant treatment effects in favour of the experimental group were obtained for the frequency of inform (p<0.01, ƞ2partial=0.09) and laugh (p<0.01, ƞ2 partial=0.18). Differences between groups emerged mainly in relation to non-verbal communicative behaviours. The findings suggest that a person-centred care based psycho-educational intervention can positively affect the direct care workers’ communicative behaviours with residents with dementia. Further research is required to determine the extent of the benefits of this approach.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15605
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    Barbosa A, Marques A, Sousa L et al (2016) Effects of a psycho-educational intervention on direct care workers’ communicative behaviors with residents with dementia. Health Communication. 31(4): 453-459.
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    https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2014.965382
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