Effects of Visual Arts Training on Dementia
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 23
- 主要终点
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA, change measure)
研究概览
简要总结
The study will use a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of two interventions (visual arts and music) for individuals with dementia, focusing on dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). Interventions will be run for 10 weeks in dementia day centers and/or retirement residences. Participants will be tested before and after the intervention on a battery of cognitive, affective, and behavioural measures. They will be compared to a waitlist control group who don't receive the intervention.
The purpose of our research is twofold: treatment of symptoms and improved quality of life during disease progression in dementia. For the primary aim, the investigators are examining the potential of arts interventions on declining functions in dementia (memory, mood, and behavior) to investigate potential treatment effects. Secondly, quality of life will be measured, with the aim of looking beyond disease progression to contribute to an overall positive patient experience. Research has indicated the need for non-pharmacological treatments to be used as a first line of action against dementia symptoms and development. While, in best practice, pharmacological treatments should be used as a second-line approach.
Note: Music intervention dropped prior to study initiation.
详细描述
Participants
Older adults age 65 and older, both males and females, with normal or corrected vision and hearing. Participants will require a diagnosis of dementia, with no other known comorbid cognitive or neurological impairments.
Participants will be randomly allocated to one of three groups
- Visual arts intervention group
- Music intervention group
- Waitlist control group (receiving the intervention after the completion of both testing sessions).
Data analysis
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- •known comorbid cognitive or neurological impairments
结局指标
主要结局
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA, change measure)
时间窗: baseline and 8 weeks
Designed by Nasreddine (2005) for overall cognitive assessment
Rey-Osterreith test of long-term memory (change measure)
时间窗: baseline and 8 weeks
Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Recognition, Rey-Osterreith Figure Copy, Rey-Osterreith verbal task (Osterreith, 1944; Schmidt, 1996)
Working memory (change measure)
时间窗: baseline and 8 weeks
Visual (body part pointing test, Stopford et al, 2010), auditory (digit span test, Weschler, 2008)
Dual task for visual and auditory search (change measure)
时间窗: baseline and 8 weeks
designed by Baddeley (2001)
Trails test of set-shifting (change measure)
时间窗: baseline and 8 weeks
Measure of set-shifting/task switching
次要结局
- Quality of Life (change measure)(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Visual analog mood scale(baseline and 8 weeks)
- Behavioural psychiatric peformance (time-to-event measure)(from date of randomization upto 8 weeks)
研究者
Melody Wiseheart
Associate Professor
York University