NCT01382693

Effects of Involvement in a Group-based Creative Expression Program on Psychotropic Drug Use in Persons With Dementia

Effects of Involvement in a Group-based Creative Expression Program on Psychotropic Drug Use in Persons With Dementia in Long-term Care: a Cluster-randomized Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project, a small-scale pilot study, will attempt to determine if involvement in a group-based creative expression program may correlate with a reduction in use of psychotropic drugs for persons with dementia.

Detailed description

The study site has two skilled-nursing dementia Special Care Units. One unit will serve as a control with residents receiving the standard care activity program. The other unit will receive the standard care activity program as well as the TimeSlips storytelling program (two hour-long sessions per week for six weeks). The behavioral symptoms and psychotropic drug usage for both cohorts will be studied for eight months, the first four months with no intervention and the last four months with or without the six-week TimeSlips intervention.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	TimeSlips	TimeSlips is a group-based creative storytelling program for people with dementia. The intervention will be held twice a week for six weeks, in hour-long sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Standard care activity program	Standard-of-care activities for the study site's skilled-nursing dementia Special Care Units.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-09-01
• First posted: 2011-06-27
• Last updated: 2012-07-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States