NCT05009147

Home-based Massage by Caregivers for Dementia

Effects of Manual Massage on Improving Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Sense of Burden Among Caregivers

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of manual massage on improving behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and sense of burden among caregivers.

Detailed description

A total of 40 patients with dementia and their family caregivers will be included and randomly allocated to experiment (n=20) or control group (n=20). The experiment and control group will receive whole body manual massage and placebo intervention (30 minutes once per week for 8 continuous weeks), respectively.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Massage
• Burden

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Home-based massage by caregivers for dementia	A total of 40 patients with dementia and their family caregivers will be included and randomly allocated to experiment (n=20) or control group (n=20). The experiment and control group will receive whole body manual massage and placebo intervention (30 minutes once per week for 8 continuous weeks), respectively.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-05-31
• Completion: 2022-05-31
• First posted: 2021-08-17
• Last updated: 2022-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan