Social Interactions Between People With Dementia in Nursing Home
- Conditions
- DementiaSocial Interactions
- Interventions
- Other: Psychosocial stimulation
- Registration Number
- NCT02403245
- Lead Sponsor
- Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
- Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the direct impact of one session of social stimulation on social interactions of people with moderate dementia living in nursing home in comparison of one session without direct social stimulation.
- Detailed Description
60 people with moderate dementia living in a french nursing homme participated in this study. Residents gave oral consent twice to participate. They were classified in groups of six residents taking into account socio-demographic and medical characteristics. Two experimental conditions were proposed : 1. a social stimulation session (36 residents) and 2. a control group without direct social stimulation (24 residents). Collected socio-demographic and medical characteristics are age, gender, timf of institutionalization, sociocultural level, marital status and diagnostic hypothesis. Before the study, scales and questionnaires were used to assess cognitive status with the Mini Mental State Examination (Folstein et al, 1975); functional abilities with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (Lawton and Brody, 1969); depression with the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (Alexopoulos et al, 1988); psychological and behavioural disorders with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (Cummings et al, 1994); and the quality of life with the Alzheimer's Disease Related Quality of Life (Rabins et al, 1999).
Social interactions are video taped and analyzed in a grid of observation.
The aim of the study is to see if there is an impact on social interactions after just one social stimulation session compared to a control group situation. Expected results are that residents of the social stimulation group will have more social interactions between us than the resident of the control group.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
- presence of a diagnostic of dementia in medical report and a MMSE score between 9 and 20.
- arrival in the institution dating less than six months
- invalidating visual or hearing disorders
- phasic disorders not allowing a minimum of communication
- significant behavioural disorders (which can disturb the meeting)
- residents not fluent in French language
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Psychosocial stimulation Psychosocial stimulation One session of a social stimulation
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Observed social behaviours during 8 minutes after the session social behaviours of residents observed and listed in an observations grid to analyze the results from observation in terms of components of behaviours expressed in means of observed behaviours.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cognitive Status Baseline Scale of the Mini Mental State of examination scored on 30 points.
Functional abilities Baseline Scale of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living scored on 14 points. More the score is high more the people is independent in daily living.
Depression Baseline Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia scored on 38 points. More the score os high more the people is depressed with a threshold score of 10.
Psychological and behaviors disorders Baseline Neuropsychiatric Inventory : hetero-evaluation of the psychological and behavioural disorders in 12 domains with the frequency of occurrence of the disorder, the intensity and the resounding on caregivers.
Quality of life Baseline Hetero-evaluation scale named Alzheimer's Disease Related Quality of life expressed in percentage. A high score means a good quality of life.