Effectiveness of Home Based Occupational Therapy for Dementia.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Occupational Therapy

• Registration Number: NCT00732329
• Lead Sponsor: Technische Universität Dresden

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if a home based occupational therapy is effective in the treatment of dementia.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-08
• Study First Submitted: 2008-08-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-08-08
• Study First Posted: 2008-08-12
• Primary Completion: 2011-01
• Study Completion: 2011-01
• Status Verified: 2015-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-02-10
• Last Update Posted: 2015-02-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

1. Dementia (according to DSM-IV TR)
2. A score 26 to 12 on the MMSE
3. Must be 55 or older
4. Patient is living at home or therapeutical flat sharing
5. Primary care giver at least 2 days / week available at home
6. Written informed consent from patient and care giver
7. German as dominant language

Exclusion Criteria

1. Other dementia (p.e. frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Parkinson's disease or atypical Parkinson's syndromes
2. Dementia with relevant displaying behavioural problems (neuropsychiatric Inventory; NPI, Subscore ≥ 8)
3. Depressive episodes (Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS (short version) ≥ 6)
4. Mental disability
5. Home Based Occupational Therapy for Dementia within the last 6 months
6. Impairment of visual and/or acoustic cognition which does not allow Occupational Therapy
7. Apoplexy with movement disorders which does not allow Occupational Therapy
8. Severe physical/systemic illnesses (cardio-pulmonal, Hematological or metabolic) which do not allow participating
9. Recent history of addictive disorder
10. Intermittent intake of depressant medication, that likely causes an impairment of cognitive performance during the trial
11. Participation in another clinical trial

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
A	Occupational Therapy	optimized home based occupational therapy including: * diagnostic assessment * patient-centered definition of targets involving the care giver * occupational therapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study/Activities of Daily Living	2 weeks, 3 and 6 months after invention or 9, 19 and 31 weeks after randomization (treatment-as-usual-group)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- for patients: cognitive performance, displaying behavioural problems, satisfaction with occupational therapy, costs of occupational therapy - for family care givers: burden, medical condition, life-satisfaction	2 weeks, 3 and 6 months after invention or 9, 19 and 31 weeks after randomization (treatment-as-usual-group)

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; 🇩🇪 Dresden, Germany

Department for Psychiatry, Psychosomatic und Psychotherapy (of "Park-Krankenhaus Leipzig-Südost GmbH"); 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Germany

Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic; 🇩🇪 Günzburg, Germany