Making Connections Thru Music

Официальное название

Making Connections Thru Music: A Group Music Therapy-Based Intervention for Persons With Dementia

Обзор

Healthcare systems around the world, including within the United States, have long-established shortages of trained caregivers. The American Health Care Association states that "the health care system has experienced a shortage of trained caregivers for critical roles for some time." This scarcity directly impacts the 45,800 Long-Term Care (LTC) communities throughout the U.S. Concurrent with this staff shortage, more than half of LTC residents have some form of dementia. These two issues create a serious public health concern, since dementia is associated with a variety of behavioral expressions, such as aggression, anxiety, and agitation. Behavioral expressions of dementia can be successfully managed with the use of tailored, psychosocial interventions and communication support. Unfortunately, existing staff shortages make the facilitation of such interventions challenging. One powerful and often-overlooked approach to ameliorating staffing shortages involves the utilization of retired volunteers to facilitate interventions for persons with dementia (PWD). Based on the nearly universal love of music and a promising pilot study, the product to be developed and tested in this STTR will build upon the combined prior work of the Principal Investigators. Making Connections Thru Music (MCTM), an urgently needed product, will enable retired volunteers to facilitate an evidence-based music and discussion intervention with PWD. MCTM aims to improve engagement, enhance quality of life, and reduce behavioral expressions in PWD. The intervention will consist of two main components: (1) a comprehensive online training course for volunteers, which will provide a general overview of dementia, demonstrate effective communication strategies to use with PWD, and instruct volunteers to effectively facilitate MCTM sessions, and (2) an app containing a structured MCTM intervention protocol and toolkit, which will be the means by which volunteers facilitate MCTM. MCTM will be marketed to LTC communities.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Volunteer Led Making Connections Thru Music
  Volunteer led Group music therapy-based intervention
• Поведенческое Staff Led Making Connections Thru Music
  Staff led Group music therapy-based intervention

Первичные конечные точки

• Menorah Park Engagement Scale [Срок оценки: Baseline (weeks 1-4) Treatment (weeks 5-12)]

Вторичные конечные точки (3)

• Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale [Срок оценки: Baseline (weeks 1-4) Treatment (weeks 5-12)]
• Geriatric Depression Scale- Short Form. Scores can range from zero to 15. Higher scores suggest a worse outcome [Срок оценки: Baseline (weeks 1-4) Treatment (weeks 5-12)]
• Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Nursing Home. [Срок оценки: Baseline (weeks 1-4) Treatment (weeks 5-12)]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Volunteers must be aged 55+ and speak/read conversational English.
• Staff participants must be at least 18 years old, work within a residential care facility participating in the study, and speak and read English.

Критерии исключения

• Volunteers will be excluded if they are diagnosed with dementia based on self-report and/or if they score 23 or lower on theMini Mental State Exam (MMSE; Folstein et al., 1975). Such a score would be indicative of possible cognitive impairment.
• Staff members will be excluded if they work third shift only. PWD Residents with dementia must be diagnosed with dementia (any type), score 10 or above on the MMSE, be aged 65+, and speak/read conversational English.
• PWD will be excluded if they show signs of rapid physical or cognitive decline (based upon staff report or as evidenced by information gained during screening).

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Лечение

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• The Hearthstone Institute, LLC — Winchester

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06079216 · HearthstoneI

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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