NCT04026061

Pilot Study Person-centred Tablet Intervention

Randomised Controlled Feasibility Study Into FindMyApps; First Evaluation of a Tablet Intervention to Promote Self-management and Meaningful Activities in People With Mild Dementia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Saxion University of Applied Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

First evaluation of FindMyApps, a tablet intervention consisting of a selection tool for usable apps for self-management and meaningful activities and a training that supports informal carers to help people with dementia to learn how to use the tablet and the tool.

Detailed description

Testing the feasibility and mechanism of impact of FindMyApps, a tablet intervention consisting of a selection tool to help persons with dementia find usable apps for self-management and meaningful activities and a training that supports informal carers to employ errorless learning principles to help people with dementia to learn how to use the tablet and the tool. An exploratory pilot randomized controlled trial was carried out with a mixed-methods design. Twenty persons with mild dementia and carer dyads were randomly assigned to the FindMyApps group (n = 10) that used the FindMyApps training and selection tool, or a control condition that just got a tablet (n = 10). After informal carers had received the training, the dyads in the experimental group started with the three-month intervention. Pre and post-test measurements consisted of questionnaires and post-test semi-structured interviews.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Mobile Applications
• Computers
• Neurological Rehabilitation
• Activities of Daily Living

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	FMA group	A person-centred, tailored tablet intervention, called FindMyApps (FMA). The intervention consists of the FMA training to use the tablet and the FMA selection tool to help users find apps for self-management and meaningful activities that fit their needs, wishes and abilities
BEHAVIORAL	Control group	Receiving an introductory tablet training and some links to websites that recommend usable apps for people with dementia in general

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-31
• Primary completion: 2017-12-12
• Completion: 2018-03-22
• First posted: 2019-07-19
• Last updated: 2019-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands