Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00653731
Effective Strategies for Dementia Care
Testing Three Interventions for Clinical Effectiveness in Long Term Care Residents With Dementia: Snoezelen, Structured Reminiscence Therapy, 10-minutes Activation. A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 327 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 55 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the interventions of Snoezelen, structured reminiscence therapy and 10-minutes activation are effective to reduce apathy in long term care residents with dementia.
Detailed description
Design: Cluster-randomized controlled trial with 20 nursing homes in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Snoezelen © | Nursing individual intervention one time a week for 20 minutes |
| BEHAVIORAL | structured reminiscence therapy | Individual nursing intervention: one time a week 20 minutes |
| BEHAVIORAL | 10-minutes activation | Individual nursing intervention: two times a week for 10 minutes |
| BEHAVIORAL | Unstructured verbal communication | Individual nursing intervention: one time a week for 20 minutes |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-01-01
- Completion
- 2010-01-01
- First posted
- 2008-04-07
- Last updated
- 2011-08-31
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00653731. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.