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Quality of life in small-scaled homelike nursing homes: an 8-month controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Quality of life is a clinical highly relevant outcome for residents with dementia. The question arises whether small scaled homelike facilities are associated with better quality of life than regular larger scale nursing homes do. METHODS: A sample of 145 residents living in a large scal...

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Autores principales: Kok, Jeroen S., Nielen, Marjan M. A., Scherder, Erik J. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29486788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-018-0853-7
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Nielen, Marjan M. A.
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description BACKGROUND: Quality of life is a clinical highly relevant outcome for residents with dementia. The question arises whether small scaled homelike facilities are associated with better quality of life than regular larger scale nursing homes do. METHODS: A sample of 145 residents living in a large scale care facility were followed over 8 months. Half of the sample (N = 77) subsequently moved to a small scaled facility. Quality of life aspects were measured with the QUALIDEM and GIP before and after relocation. RESULTS: We found a significant Group x Time interaction on measures of anxiety meaning that residents who moved to small scale units became less anxious than residents who stayed on the regular care large-scale units. No significant differences were found on other aspects of quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that residents who move from a large scale facility to a small scale environment can improve an aspect of quality of life by showing a reduction in anxiety. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN11151241. registration date: 21–06-2017. Retrospectively registered.
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spelling pubmed-58300702018-03-05 Quality of life in small-scaled homelike nursing homes: an 8-month controlled trial Kok, Jeroen S. Nielen, Marjan M. A. Scherder, Erik J. A. Health Qual Life Outcomes Research BACKGROUND: Quality of life is a clinical highly relevant outcome for residents with dementia. The question arises whether small scaled homelike facilities are associated with better quality of life than regular larger scale nursing homes do. METHODS: A sample of 145 residents living in a large scale care facility were followed over 8 months. Half of the sample (N = 77) subsequently moved to a small scaled facility. Quality of life aspects were measured with the QUALIDEM and GIP before and after relocation. RESULTS: We found a significant Group x Time interaction on measures of anxiety meaning that residents who moved to small scale units became less anxious than residents who stayed on the regular care large-scale units. No significant differences were found on other aspects of quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that residents who move from a large scale facility to a small scale environment can improve an aspect of quality of life by showing a reduction in anxiety. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN11151241. registration date: 21–06-2017. Retrospectively registered. BioMed Central 2018-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5830070/ /pubmed/29486788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-018-0853-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29486788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-018-0853-7
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