Official Title: Evaluation Study for the Chef Anchor 30 Program for Older People With Mild Cognitive ImpairmentDementia and Their Informal Caregivers
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-08
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Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
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Brief Summary: Objectives
1 PrimaryTo estimate the potential effects of the cooking program on the people with MCIdementia and their informal caregivers 2 To investigate if the potential effects can be maintained after the completion of the program
Study design and participants
A convenience sample of 68 pair older adults with MCIdementia and their informal caregivers from the Chef Anchor 30 Programme will be referred to the research team Overall participants will be randomly assigned to intervention group and waitlist control group in a ratio of 11 Assessors of outcomes and data analyst will be blinded throughout the whole study
During the first 10 weeks the intervention group will undergo the 10-week programme in the Chef Anchor 30 while no activity for the waitlist control group Then from week 10 to 20 the waitlist control group will attend the same 10-week programme
Measurements
Main outcome measures for people with MCIdementia will include confidence in cooking Primary cooking capability satisfaction with autonomy in cooking Satisfaction with meal choices Worried about future cooking ability and meal choices cognitive function self-reported appetite psychological well-being family harmony and satisfaction as well as self-rated health
Outcome measures for informal caregivers will include confidence in care recipient s cooking worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient caregiver burden psychological well-being family harmony and satisfaction as well as self-rated health
Other measures will include attendance rate home practice rate drop-out rate programme satisfaction and recommendation to others
Hypotheses
1 The confidence in cooking cooking capability satisfaction with autonomy in cooking satisfaction with meal choices worried about future cooking ability and meal choices cognitive function self-reported appetite psychological well-being family satisfaction and self-rated health of older adults with MCIdementia would improve after the programme 2 The confidence in care recipients cooking worried about future cooking ability and meal choices of care recipient psychological well-being family satisfaction caregiver burden and self-rated health of informal caregivers would improve after the programme 3 The 10-week programme is acceptable for the most of older adults with MCIdementia and their informal caregivers