Valuing Active Life in Dementia: a trial to assess the effectiveness of community occupational therapy for people with dementia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Dementias and neurodegeneration; Subtopic: Dementia; Disease: Dementia; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN10748953
• Lead Sponsor: orth East London NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Brief Summary

2016 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841799

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-09-18
• Study Completion: 2018-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 7 October 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 936

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria for people with dementia:
1. Living in the community in own home (includes sheltered accommodation)
2. Identified family carer who provides at least four hours support per week
3. Has a diagnosis of dementia, as defined by the DSM-IV and scores between 0.5 and 2 on the Clinical Dementia
Rating Scale
4. Able to converse in English
5. Able and willing to participate in the COTiD-UK intervention in partnership with their family carer, i.e., ten 1-hour sessions of home-based occupational therapy
6. Has capacity to provide his/her consent

Inclusion criteria for family caregivers:
1. Aged 18 or over
2. Is currently providing practical support with domestic and/or personal activities to the person with dementia for a
minimum of 4 hours per week
3. Able to converse in English
4. Able and willing to participate in the COTiD-UK intervention in partnership with the person with dementia that
they support, i.e., ten 1-hour sessions of home-based occupational therapy
5. Has capacity to provide his/her consent

Inclusion criteria for occupational therapist participants:
1. Be registered as an occupational therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council
2. Have experience of working in the community and/or with people who have dementia and their family carers
3. Have completed the COTi-DUK training and achieved fidelity with COTi-DUK implementation

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria for people with dementia:
1. Participating in another intervention research study
2. Currently in hospital or living in a care home

Exclusion criteria for family carers:
1. Participating in another intervention research study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Activities of Daily Living Scale - Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale. Outcome measures will be completed at baseline, then at: 12, 26 and 52 weeks, with the first 40% of the participants also completing a 78-week follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)<br> 2. Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI)<br> 3. Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)<br> 4. Interview of Deterioration in Daily activities in Dementia (IDDD)<br> 5. Dementia Quality of Life Scale (DEMQOL)<br> 6. European Quality of Life - Five Dimensions (EQ-5D) 5 Level<br> 7. Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD)<br> 8. Serious adverse events<br> 9. Use of psychotropic drugs<br> 10. Sense of Competence Questionnaire (SCQ)<br> 11. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)<br>