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Train the trainer in dementia care

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Title
Train the trainer in dementia care
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Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, April 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00391-016-1041-1
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J. Franzmann, J. Haberstroh, J. Pantel

Abstract

Improvement of communication skills in nursing home staff is key to provide better care for dementia patients and decrease occupational mental stress. An innovative train-the-trainer program to improve and maintain professional caregivers' social competencies in nursing home dementia care is described. Over a period of 6 months, a group of 6 senior staff members were qualified as program trainers (multiplicators) for the TANDEM training program, which qualified them to design, deliver, and evaluate training sessions that foster specific social competencies in dementia care. In a subsequent intervention study with 116 geriatric caregivers in 14 nursing homes, training was provided either by multiplicators (intervention group) or directly by project coworkers (control group). Participants in both groups improved their dementia-specific communication skills. In a follow-up survey, the intervention group also reported lasting reductions in mental stressors at work (p < 0.05) and occupational mental stress (p < 0.01) compared with the control group. The qualification of staff members in German nursing homes to be multiplicators for the TANDEM train-the-trainer program for dementia-specific communication skills has a beneficial influence on social competencies, mental stressors at work, and occupational mental stress of staff who care for dementia patients and may contribute to a sustainable implementation of dementia-specific social competencies.

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Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 25%
Unspecified 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Professor 1 8%
Other 2 17%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 5 42%
Unspecified 1 8%
Psychology 1 8%
Sports and Recreations 1 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 25%
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