Exploring the impacts of Welsh medium CMHT in dementia support
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring the impacts of Welsh medium, Community Mental Health Team practice, in providing support to individulas living with dementia and their carers: an ethnographic study.
IRAS ID
236341
Contact name
Catrin Hedd Jones
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Bangor University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 31 days
Research summary
The study will explore whether a Welsh medium dementia care service, in rural areas, has an impact on the interventions, support and care provided to people with dementia and their carers. The study will seek to understand, whether the Welsh medium service, led to a more successful relationship, between the Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), the patients and their carers. In this way, it will also examine the complex interrelationships between service delivery and cultural and linguistic contexts, and how it may enhance the experience of Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) service, through the assigning of a Welsh-speaking CPN. It will utilise an ethnographic approach, within the setting of a CMHT, for older people, in rural North Wales.
This study will address whether the culture and language of Welsh speaking people with dementia, as well as their carers and families, in rural Wales, should be understood and taken into account when addressing the needs of patients, when planning and providing, appropriate interventions. This aspect will be addressed in the study, as there is already published evidence suggesting that people within minority populations are, for example, are less inclined to utilise services for people with dementia. There is therefore a need for more research in this field, especially in investigating how bilingual health care workers can support and enhance services for patients and carers in the community.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
18/WA/0164
Date of REC Opinion
23 May 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion