Erinnerungs_reich - Museums as medicine for people with dementia
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Caregiver Burden, demetia
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031606
- Lead Sponsor
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 102
Inclusion Criteria
1. Time to participate in museum visits (5 appointments in 10 weeks) and the opportunity to come to the museum with the relative.
2. Caregiver
3. Care effort at least 4 days/week
4. no dementia or mental illness (e.g. depression, bipolar disorder)
5. Willingness to answer study questions
6. resilient for museum visits
7. sufficient knowledge of German
Exclusion Criteria
a) Participation in another study
b) dementia or mental illness treated with pharmacology (e.g. depression, bipolar disorder)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Burden on relatives: Zarit burden interview (relatives)<br>at least constant.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method for relatives and the person with dementia<br>• minimum maintenance of habitual well-being<br>• minimum maintenance of quality of life<br>• Relationship quality:<br>• changed social interactions with others (e.g. personal network remains stable, new contacts?)<br><br>relatives<br>• situational reduction of stress<br>• Improved coping with caregiver stress<br>• Fragility<br><br>person with dementia<br>• At least maintenance of neuropsychiatric symptoms (including renunciation of supportive antidepressants/neuroleptics)<br>• Fragility