Reminiscence groups for people with dementia and their family care-givers: pragmatic eight-centre trial of joint reminiscence and maintenance v usual treatment

Completed

Conditions: Dementia
Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Registration Number: ISRCTN42430123

Lead Sponsor: niversity of Wales Bangor (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 576

Inclusion Criteria

1. Participants with dementia will meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria for dementia. All types of dementia will be included, including Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, Dementia of Lewy Body type and mixed dementias.
2. Participants with dementia will be in the mild to moderate stage of dementia (Clinical Dementia Rating).
3. Participants with dementia will have some ability to communicate and understand communication: a score of 1 or 0 on the relevant items of the Clifton Assessment Procedures for the Elderly ? Behaviour Rating Scale.
4. Participants with dementia will be living in the community at the time of the baseline assessment, and will have a relative or other care-giver who maintains regular contact, can act as an informant, and would be willing and able to participate in the intervention with the person with dementia.

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will not have a major physical illness, sensory impairment, disability or a high level of agitation which could affect participation.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The following will be assessed at baseline, 3 and 10 months after randomisation:<br><br>1. Quality of life for the person with dementia, self-assessed by the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD), which has been shown to be reliable and valid for people with mild and moderate degrees of dementia. The scale is completed in a structured interview with the person with dementia and covers 13 domains of life quality. <br><br>2. Care-giver's mental health, evaluated using the 28 item, self-report General Health Questionnaire GHQ-28 which has been widely used in care-giver research; the Likert scoring system 0-1-2-3 will be used. The scale includes indicators of anxiety, depression, insomnia, social dysfunction and somatic symptoms. This is preferred as the primary care-giver outcome to the Relatives' Stress Scale in this study, in view of its more general focus and wide usage.

Secondary Outcome Measures