IDEA: Intervention to prevent depressive symptoms and promote well-being in early stage dementia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Early-stage dementia; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Dementia in Alzheimer disease

• Registration Number: ISRCTN75503960
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London

Brief Summary

2018 protocol in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29439085 2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31609689 (added 14/01/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-01-08
• Study Completion: 2019-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 3 February 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 63

Inclusion Criteria

1. People with mild dementia (MMSE = 20)
2. People with dementia who have received a diagnosis in the last 6 months
3. Living in the community
4. Available family carer who can assist the person with dementia in the intervention and can act as an informant (weekly contact)

Exclusion Criteria

People at risk of suicide (clinicians’ judgement)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Number of eligible participants that consent to the study, and number of those finding<br> the intervention acceptable using 95 Confidence Intervals %<br> 2. Number of dyads recruited per month and any barriers or facilitators to recruitment<br> 3. Follow-up rates and number completing each outcome measure proposed for the main trial<br> 4. Number of sessions attended<br> 5. Standard deviations and correlations between repeated-measurements<br><br> Outcomes will be measured at 4 and 8 months.<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> People with dementia:<br> 1. Depressive symptoms - Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD)<br> 2. Self-rated and carer-rated dementia-specific quality of life for the person with dementia – DEMQOL<br> 3. Neuropsychiatric symptoms - Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI)<br> 4. Health services utilisation - Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI)<br><br> Carers:<br> 1. Carers’ mental health - Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)<br> 2. Carers' quality of life - EuroQoL EQ-5D (EQ-5D) and the Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12)<br><br> Outcomes will be measured at 4 and 8 months.<br>