What is the effectiveness of a tailor-made social fitness program for community dwelling older people with dementia and their caregivers?

Completed

• Conditions: social inclusion; social participation; 10009841; 10001474

• Registration Number: NL-OMON38527
• Lead Sponsor: niversitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 23 April 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 92

Inclusion Criteria

Home dwelling patient with memory problems (MMSE 10-24);
Who have a caregiver who is available for informal support at a minimum of one time a week.
The patient and caregiver wish to maintain or improve their level of social participation, or to decrease their feelings of loneliness.
Both the patient and the caregiver signed the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

1. No goals in total (patient and caregiver together) for social participation, assessed
during the screening interview using the COPM.
2. People who are not capable of completing the self assessment forms (i.e. due to
language problems).
3. Co-morbidity with symptoms that interfere with actively taking part in the intervention (e.g BPSD, severe heart condition).
4. Unstable use (<3 months) of medication which influences cognition
5. Palliative phase of illness
6. Acute illness with hospital indication
7. Current participation in other health research
8. Received physiotherapy according to the Coach2Move protocol in the last 6 months.
9. Received occupational therapy according to the COTiD-programme in the last 6 months.
10. No financial possibilities to receive occupational therapy (i.e. because OT has already been received in the last calendar year).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary outcome measure is patients' and caregivers' participation in<br /><br>meaningful social activities, assessed with the performance and satisfaction<br /><br>rating of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measurement (COPM). </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Secondary outcomes include: patients' and caregivers' quality of life (DQoL)<br /><br>and health related quality of life (EQ-5D); patients* mobility (TUG),<br /><br>caregivers* sense of competence (SCQ); resource utilization (RUD-lite) and<br /><br>socio-demographics. Patients' socio-demographics and frailty (EFIP) are<br /><br>measured as a covariate.</p><br>