Animal-assisted Therapy Improves Cognitive and Emotion in Nursing Home Residents
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 44
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The Short Portable mental state questionnaire (SPMSQ)
研究概览
简要总结
More than 80% of the residents of the investigator's nursing home are dementia, who are often mentally and emotionally unstable. The staff need to spend time helping to eliminate problems. The investigator assume that non-drug intervention measures can be added, such as the Animal-assisted Therapy (AAT). The hypothesis for ATT is expected to improve the mental and emotional inappropriate manifestations of dementia, reduce interfering behaviors, improve the quality of life, reduce the use of inappropriate mental drugs, and expect residents to delay the degradation of physiological functions.
详细描述
Nursing homes in the investigator's country accept dementia residents usually. The dementia residents often suffer from mental and emotional problems. Then they used drugs to improve the mental and emotional conditions. There were many studies about non-drug treatments ,such as: gardening, nostalgia, pets, and other interventions were improved for the mental and emotional to dementia residents.Well-trained therapy dogs exhibit the behavior that human patients construe as friendly and welcoming.AAT dogs are also required to possess a calm temperament for accommodating the contact with unfamiliar clients while they serve as a source of comfort. In domestic observational studies, non-pharmaceutical interventions for people with dementia who have activities and the hypothesis for ATT can improve the quality of care for dementia, reduce the use of mentally inappropriate drugs, and delay the degree of degeneration. Recent evidence has shown that nursing institutions with dementia arranged weekly activities with AAT for a period of 6 months. Significant improvement was in social interaction, emotional expression, and behavioral and psychological symptoms.
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
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
There are blinding of participants and their family.
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Residents of long-term care homes
- •No fear or allergy to dogs
- •Wheelchair accessible persons
- •Able to communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese
- •Agree to sign the subject consent form
排除标准
- •Non-residents of nursing homes
- •Fear and allergy to dogs
- •Bedridden and wheelchair users
- •Do not agree to sign the subject consent form
- •Note: Although many nursing home residents have symptoms of dementia, many have not been diagnosed by a doctor, so dementia and other related diseases cannot be included in the inclusion or exclusion criteria.
研究组 & 干预措施
emotion status
Geriatric Depression Scale and Short Form Health Scale(GDS-15)
干预措施: Animal-assisted Therapy (Behavioral)
cognition status
Short Portable mental state questionnaire(SPMSQ)
干预措施: Animal-assisted Therapy (Behavioral)
feeling healthy
Brief Symptom Rating Scale(BSRS-5)
干预措施: Animal-assisted Therapy (Behavioral)
activities of daily living status
Barthel index scale
干预措施: Animal-assisted Therapy (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
The Short Portable mental state questionnaire (SPMSQ)
时间窗: The experimental and control groups were subjected to a pre-test after they were recruited. There are 12 times AAT, once a week.The AAT did in experimental group,then both groups, there are three post-tests were taken 8th、12th and 16th weeks.
This scale was adopted in this study to assess the participants' cognitive functions.
次要结局
- The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15)(The experimental and control groups were subjected to a pre-test after they were recruited. There are 12 times AAT, once a week.The AAT did in experimental group,then both groups, there are three post-tests were taken 8th、12th and 16th weeks.)
- The Barthel Index(The experimental and control groups were subjected to a pre-test after they were recruited. There are 12 times AAT, once a week.The AAT did in experimental group,then both groups, there are three post-tests were taken 8th、12th and 16th weeks.)
- The Brief Symptom Rating Scale(BSRS-5)(The experimental and control groups were subjected to a pre-test after they were recruited. There are 12 times AAT, once a week.The AAT did in experimental group,then both groups, there are three post-tests were taken 8th、12th and 16th weeks.)