NCT07531589

BrainLive Connect: Non-professional Delivered CST for People Living With Dementia

BrainLive Connect: Non-professional Delivered Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for People Living With Dementia

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 520 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this mixed method study is to evaluate whether the volunteer-led Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) under the BrainLive Connect programme is effective for improving cognitive function and quality of life of people living with dementia (PLwD). The main question it aims to answer are: • Do PLwD receiving the BrainLive Connect service show better cognitive function and quality of life than those receiving usual care? Researchers will compare BrainLive Connect service to usual care to see whether the intervention leads to better outcomes. Participants will: * Receive either 7 weeks of BrainLive Connect sessions delivered by trained volunteers or continue receiving usual care. * Be assessed at baseline (T0), post-intervention (7 weeks; T1), and 1 month follow up (11 weeks; T2). * Take part in semi-strucutred interviews post-intervention to provide feedback on implementation and areas for improvement.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)	CST has been recognized as an effective and cost-effective intervention for individuals with mild to moderate dementia, leading to improvements in cognition and quality of life. CST is one of the few non-pharmacological interventions recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in their clinical guideline on dementia, as it has comparable efficacy to anti-dementia drugs. Exercise-enhanced CST is characterised by adding physical exercise into the original group CST protocol. Home2Community CST is characterized by a gradual shift of its intervention site from the participant's home to public space in their neighbourhood and then further to centre-based settings. Living CST is characterised by transferring CST into real life settings to maximise its benefits in daily functioning for independent living.
OTHER	Usual Care	Usual care and support service for people living with dementia in community, including but not limited to, care service, psychosocial intervention (but not CST), and social activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-21
• Primary completion: 2027-11-10
• Completion: 2027-11-10
• First posted: 2026-04-15
• Last updated: 2026-04-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong