TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wilfling, Denise
AU  - Kühn, Anja
AU  - Lüth, Frederike
AU  - Berg, Almuth
AU  - Klatt, Thomas
AU  - Meyer, Gabriele
AU  - Dörner, Jonas
AU  - Halek, Margareta
AU  - Köpke, Sascha
AU  - Dichter, Martin
AU  - Möhler, Ralph
TI  - Process evaluation of an intervention to reduce sleep problems in people living with dementia in nursing homes: a mixed-methods study.
JO  - Age & ageing
VL  - 54
IS  - 3
SN  - 0002-0729
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - DZNE-2025-00400
SP  - afaf051
PY  - 2025
AB  - People living with dementia often suffer from sleep disturbances. The MoNoPol-Sleep (multimodal, nonpharmacological intervention for sleep disturbances in people with dementia living in nursing homes) study aimed to develop and evaluate a multimodal, nonpharmacological intervention to prevent and reduce sleep disturbances in people with dementia living in nursing homes.To investigate implementation fidelity, adoption, barriers and facilitators of the multimodal, nonpharmacological intervention.Mixed-methods process evaluation alongside an exploratory cluster-randomised controlled trial.Twenty-two nursing homes in three regions in Germany.Nursing staff, nursing home managers, sleep nurses and other target groups of the intervention from the participating nursing homes.Questionnaires, qualitative interviews and documentation of the intervention's implementation.The intervention was predominately implemented as planned, but implementation fidelity varied between the clusters. The most frequently planned and implemented sleep-promoting interventions were daytime activities. There is some evidence that person-centredness slightly increased in the intervention group. The commitment of nursing home managers, the motivation of nurses and good cooperation with the main contact persons of the research team were identified as facilitating context factors. Identified barriers were financial and time resources and low motivation of the nurses. The results of the cRCT have been published elsewhere.For a successful implementation, involvement of nurses from day and night shifts and other stakeholders is crucial. Based on the results of this process evaluation conducted alongside an exploratory trial, the intervention can be adapted and further developed to evaluate its effectiveness in a future full trial.ISRCTN No ISRCTN36015309.
KW  - Humans
KW  - Nursing Homes
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders: therapy
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders: diagnosis
KW  - Male
KW  - Germany
KW  - Homes for the Aged
KW  - Female
KW  - Aged
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Sleep Quality
KW  - Process Assessment, Health Care
KW  - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW  - Treatment Outcome
KW  - Sleep
KW  - dementia (Other)
KW  - nursing home (Other)
KW  - older people (Other)
KW  - sleep (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40037562
DO  - DOI:10.1093/ageing/afaf051
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/277339
ER  -