NCT00735046

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy of Early Dementia

Cognitive Behavioural Resource-based Therapy of Early Dementia in the Everyday Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Technical University of Munich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized, controlled, parallel-group trial to evaluate the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with early dementia.

Detailed description

The KORDIAL study is a randomized, controlled, parallel-group trial evaluating the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral therapy for patients at the early stage of Alzheimer's disease. The 3-month experimental intervention consists of 12 individual sessions with regular involvement of carers or other patient proxies. Strategies for improving the patient's coping ability and for enhancing their psychological well-being are combined. The primary outcome criterion is functioning in the everyday context after completion of the intervention and after another 6 months. The control condition will be treatment as usual. The study will be conducted in 5 university outpatient units and in 5 specialist offices.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive behavioral therapy for early Alzheimer's disease	12 weekly individual sessions, total duration 3 months, regular involvement of patient's proxy ever second session. Intervention is manualized but is flexible with regard to individual resources and needs.
OTHER	Control	Patients and proxies who are assigned to treatment as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-04-01
• Completion: 2010-04-01
• First posted: 2008-08-14
• Last updated: 2011-01-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany