The use of therapeutic activities to reduce the stress of patients with dementia in the emergency department

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Dementia with responsive Behaviours; Neurological - Dementias; Emergency medicine - Other emergency care

• Registration Number: ACTRN12619001316190
• Lead Sponsor: Rosemarry Bryant Foundation

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-09-26
• Last Update Posted: 7 October 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 112

Inclusion Criteria

Participants will be eligible for randomisation if they are exhibiting responsive behaviours or are at risk of responsive behaviours and have a surrogate decision-maker available to the research team to consent on behalf of the patient. As all Participants who have dementia and are being treated in an ED are at risk of developing responsive behaviours then all Participants with dementia who present to the ED will be eligible for this study. Responsive behaviours will be assessed by a standardised checklist that has been developed from the literature specifically for this study

Inclusion Criteria
To be included in the trial a Participant must meet all of the following criteria:
•Participant has a history of dementia
•Participant is currently exhibiting responsive behaviours or are at risk of developing responsive behaviours.
•Participant has a surrogate decision maker available to provide informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

A Participant who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in the trial:
•Participant has cognitive impairment due to cause other than dementia (e.g. organic illness, traumatic brain injury, hypoxia, etc.)
•Participants with end stage dementia who are unlikely to benefit from any therapeutic intervention.
•Patents whose illness or injury is of a sufficiently serious nature to prevent them from interacting with the therapeutic activity kit.
•No surrogate decision maker is available to provide informed consent to participate.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified