Trial reportBMJ open2018
Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMJ open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Implementing Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: a systematically constructed review with framework synthesis.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Defining end of life in dementia: A systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Spiritual Care in Advanced Dementia from the Perspective of Health Providers: A Qualitative Systematic Review.Occupational therapy international · 2021Pooled it
- A group intervention to improve quality of life for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: the Namaste feasibility cluster RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
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- Transformative Namaste Care: An Intervention Study Enhancing Quality of Life for People Living With Advanced Dementia.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Perceived Quality of Palliative Care in Nursing Homes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Preliminary Effect and Acceptability of an Intervention to Improve End-of-Life Care in Long-Term-Care Facilities: A Feasibility Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- NUrsing Homes End of Life care Program (NUHELP): developing a complex intervention.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- What should we report? Lessons learnt from the development and implementation of serious adverse event reporting procedures in non-pharmacological trials in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2021Review
- Namaste care in the home setting: developing initial realist explanatory theories and uncovering unintended outcomes.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Nonparametric time series summary statistics for high-frequency accelerometry data from individuals with advanced dementia.PloS one · 2020Article
- Improving living and dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a realist review of Namaste Care and other multisensory interventions.BMC geriatrics · 2018Review
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Abstract
introductionMany people living with advanced dementia live and die in nursing care homes. The quality of life, care and dying experienced by these people is variable. Namaste Care is a multisensory programme of care developed for people with advanced dementia. While there is emerging evidence that Namaste Care may be beneficial for people with dementia, there is a need to conduct a feasibility study to establish the optimum way of delivering this complex intervention and whether benefits can be demonstrated in end-of-life care, for individuals and service delivery. The aim of the study is to ascertain the feasibility of conducting a full trial of the Namaste Care intervention. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A feasibility study, comprising a parallel, two-arm, multicentre cluster controlled randomised trial with embedded process and economic evaluation. Nursing care homes (total of eight) who deliver care to those with advanced dementia will be randomly allocated to intervention (delivered at nursing care home level) or control. Three participant groups will be recruited: residents with advanced dementia, informal carers of a participating resident and nursing care home staff. Data will be collected for 6 months. Feasibility objectives concern the recruitment and sampling of nursing homes, residents, informal carers and staff; the selection and timing of primary (quality of dying and quality of life) and secondary clinical outcome measures (person centredness, symptom presence, agitation, quality of life, resource use and costs and residents' activity monitored using actigraphy). Acceptability, fidelity and sustainability of the intervention will be assessed using semistructured interviews with staff and informal carers. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This protocol has been approved by NHS Wales Research Ethics Committee 5 (ref: 17/WA0378). Dissemination plans include working with a public involvement panel, through a website (http://www.namastetrial.org.uk), social media, academic and practice conferences and via peer reviewed publications. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN14948133; Pre-results.
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