Snoezelen, structured reminiscence therapy and 10-minutes activation in long term care residents with dementia (WISDE): study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial

BMC Geriatrics

Study Protocol

Stephanie Hanns¹  Melanie Beyrodt²  Katharina Sadowski²  Christiane Becker²  Almuth Berg²  Gero Langer²  Johann Behrens²  Christine Lautenschläger³  Markus Zimmermann⁴ 

[1] Department of Medical Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany;Institute for Health Care and Nursing Studies, Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany;Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany;Institute of Public Health and Nursing Science, University of Bremen, Germany;

关键词: Dementia;    Nursing Home;    Challenging Behavior;    Dementia Care;    Nursing Home Staff;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2318-10-5

 received in 2010-01-17, accepted in 2010-01-31,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPeople with dementia are often inapproachable due to symptoms of their illness. Therefore nurses should establish relationships with dementia patients via their remaining resources and facilitate communication. In order to achieve this, different targeted non-pharmacological interventions are recommended and practiced. However there is no sufficient evidence about the efficacy of most of these interventions. A number of publications highlight the urgent need for methodological sound studies so that more robust conclusions may be drawn.Methods/DesignThe trial is designed as a cluster randomized controlled trial with 20 nursing homes in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) as the units of randomization. Nursing homes will be randomly allocated into 4 study groups consisting of 5 clusters and 90 residents: snoezelen, structured reminiscence therapy, 10-minutes activation or unstructured verbal communication (control group). The purpose is to determine whether the interventions are effective to reduce apathy in long-term care residents with dementia (N = 360) as the main outcome measure. Assessments will be done at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months after beginning of the interventions.DiscussionThis trial will particularly contribute to the evidence on efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions in dementia care.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT00653731

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