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- Care staff often lack knowledge, confidence, skills, and competency to provide optimal care for people with dementia. Dementia education can increase staff competency and wellbeing along with the actual care of people with dementia.
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The diversity of the dementia care workforce means those requiring workplace education may be at varying stages of proficiency with regard to exposure to both clinical work with people with dementia and dementia education.
Jun 1, 2023 · Care staff often lack knowledge, confidence, skills, and competency to provide optimal care for people with dementia. Dementia education can increase staff competency and wellbeing along with the actual care of people with dementia.
Impact of dementia training on staff knowledge. The knowledge scores for the overall sample ranged from 7.5 to 16 (out of a potential score of 21) and the average score achieved was 13.80 (SD=1.86). The final hierarchical model accounted for 18% of the variance in staff knowledge (F=2.77, p<0.01).
- Sahdia Parveen, Sarah Jane Smith, Cara Sass, Jan R Oyebode, Andrea Capstick, Alison Dennison, Claire...
- 2021
Jan 19, 2021 · The results suggest that dementia education and training has limited impact on health and social care staff learning outcomes. While training content variables were important when attempting to improve staff knowledge, more consideration should be given to pedagogical factors when training is aiming to improve staff attitude and confidence.
- Sahdia Parveen, Sarah Jane Smith, Cara Sass, Jan R Oyebode, Andrea Capstick, Alison Dennison, Claire...
- 2021
Jun 5, 2020 · The health and social care workforce requires access to appropriate education and training to provide quality care for people with dementia. Success of a training programme depends on staff ability to put their learning into practice through behaviour change.
- Claire A. Surr, Sahdia Parveen, Sarah J. Smith, Michelle Drury, Cara Sass, Sarah Burden, Jan Oyebode
- 2020
Jul 31, 2017 · Therefore, greater understanding and consideration of what effective dementia education and training for this workforce entails, is required. This is particularly important if this imperative to educate the workforce is to lead to improved outcomes for people with dementia.
Dementia education positively affects knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes towards dementia and people with dementia. Care staff experienced improvements in communication and behavior management and reduction in behavioral symptoms of dementia of people with dementia was seen as well.
