None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This project will look at the impact of digitalised music therapy during hospital admission for patients living with dementia. Each patient will receive a personalised library of music that they can access throughout their stay via headphones and/or speaker. It is anticipated that patients will experience improvement in behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (BPSD), with subsequent benefits including a reduction in the use of psychotropic medication, hospital length of stay, caregiver stress and critical incidents.
Interventions
Personalised music therapy available to participant at any time during their admission (via portable speaker or headphones) and to be offered throughout the day (and evenings if appropriate). Staff will enter all intervention sessions into the participant's electronic medical record, as per standard care recording of shift activities.
Introductory session will be carried out following recruitment to gather participant’s music preferences and compile an individualised digital profile and music li
Personalised music therapy available to participant at any time during their admission (via portable speaker or headphones) and to be offered throughout the day (and evenings if appropriate). Staff will enter all intervention sessions into the participant's electronic medical record, as per standard care recording of shift activities. Introductory session will be carried out following recruitment to gather participant’s music preferences and compile an individualised digital profile and music library. This will be administered in a face to face session by a member of the research team, with the participant's carer/relative present if possible, and will take approximately 30 minutes.
Sponsors
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
65 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
• Patients aged greater than or equal to 65 years admitted under a geriatrician to the Aged Care acute or subacute ward; • Diagnosis of all-cause dementia (new or pre-existing); • Presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia +/- delirium; and • Appropriate written consent from the patient and/or Person Responsible if the patient does not have decisional capacity to consent to clinical research.
Exclusion criteria
• Disturbed behaviour due to primary psychiatric illness (not dementia). • Unable to obtain written consent from patient or Person Responsible. • Unable to obtain phone consent from patient or Person Responsible for historical control group. • Unable to obtain written consent from Staff participant.
Outcome results
None listed