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• Conditions: F03; Unspecified dementia

• Registration Number: DRKS00013918
• Lead Sponsor: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Forschungsgruppe Geriatrie

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-04-11
• Study Completion: 2018-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

Persons suffering from a clinically diagnosed dementia: aged 65 and older, written informed consent (participant or legal guardian); ambulant setting: living together with one or more relative.
caregiver/ relative: minimum part-time working (50%) in caregiving; ambulant setting: living together with study participant (person with dementia)

Exclusion Criteria

Persons with dementia: lack of ability to express themselves in language.
Cargiver/ relative: more than 4 weeks of absence during study phase.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Analysis of the human-machine-interaction of people with dementia and music therapists (user behavior, usability, acceptability) with a music system.<br><br>End of the intervention phase: <br>music therapists: <br>- self-developed questionnaire about user behavior <br>- usability (Normalization Process Theory, NOMAD) <br>- Acceptability (adapted from Music in Dementia Assessment Scale, MiDAS. <br>people with dementia (external assessment by relative or caregiver): <br>- self-developed questionnaire about user behavior <br>- Acceptability (adapted from Music in Dementia Assessment Scale, MiDAS) <br>- Usability (Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of use, USE; System Usability Scale, SUS) <br>- quality of life (Alzheimer's Disease Related Quality of Life, ADRQL) <br>- Depression (Cornell Depression Scale, CDS) <br>- Agitation (Cohen Mansfield Agitation Inventory, CMAI) <br>- Apathy (Apathy Evaluation Scale, AES).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Efficay of a music system for people with dementia regarding 1. improvement of life quality 2. reduction of apathy and agitation episodes<br><br>