NCT03447444

Music and Physical Activity in Persons With Dementia

Dignity for Persons With Dementia and Signs of Frontotemporal Affection in Institutions.See us and Dance With us

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oslo Metropolitan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Fronto lobe dementia constitutes 10-20 % of dementia conditions within younger persons (\>65). People with neuronal degeneration in frontal and temporal lobes demonstrate a decline in social conduct, apathy, loss of insight that is gradual and progressive. Family members often experience guilt and shame because of the patients' behavior before institutionalization, and different behavioral disorders will cause great challenges to family caregivers and to staff after institutionalization. Preservation of dignity, both in regards to the person being affected, and their relatives, therefore seem highly relevant both before and after institutionalization.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a combined intervention of physical activity and music therapy could reduce restlessness, irritability, and aggression among institutionalized people with severe dementia. An exploratory design was used to evaluate a combined intervention of physical activity, music therapy, and in- or outdoors walking daily, systematically implemented for eight weeks for persons with severe dementia in institutional care.

Conditions

• Dementia Frontal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	music and physical activity	This feasibility study focus on promoting a combination of music therapy and physical activity with the primary goal to describe the influence on restlessness, irritability, and aggression in persons with severe stage of dementia with a mixture of symptoms including frontal lobe problems in institutional care. A secondary goal is to investigate the treatment fidelity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-11
• Primary completion: 2015-02-27
• Completion: 2015-02-27
• First posted: 2018-02-27
• Last updated: 2020-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway