Effects of Involvement in a Group-based Creative Expression Program on Psychotropic Drug Use in Persons With Dementia in Long-term Care: a Cluster-randomized Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 20
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Rates of psychotropic drug prescriptions for study participants.
研究概览
简要总结
This project, a small-scale pilot study, will attempt to determine if involvement in a group-based creative expression program may correlate with a reduction in use of psychotropic drugs for persons with dementia.
详细描述
The study site has two skilled-nursing dementia Special Care Units. One unit will serve as a control with residents receiving the standard care activity program. The other unit will receive the standard care activity program as well as the TimeSlips storytelling program (two hour-long sessions per week for six weeks). The behavioral symptoms and psychotropic drug usage for both cohorts will be studied for eight months, the first four months with no intervention and the last four months with or without the six-week TimeSlips intervention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •residence in one of two dementia special-care skilled nursing units at the study site
- •clinical diagnosis of dementia
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Rates of psychotropic drug prescriptions for study participants.
时间窗: eight months
次要结局
- Mood and behavior patterns(eight months)
研究者
Winona Houser
Medical Student
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center