Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group:creative expressive cognitive intervention
Control group:general social activities
Sponsors
Fujian Provincial Hospital
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
65 Years to 101 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Dementia patients: (1) Aged >=65 years, and meet the diagnostic criteria of WHO International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 dementia; (2) Patients with mild to moderate dementia with a CDR score of 1 or 2 with the assistance of the clinician; (3) The medication was stable and the condition was stable within 1 month; (4) Have a certain level of hearing and vision and retain certain hand function, can participate in the activity; (5) Patients or family members sign written informed consent. 2. Caregivers: (1) As a main caregivers to take care of patients with 30 days or more, and is expected to begin research can continue to care for patients after 4 months or more; (2) Have normal ability to read, understand and express Chinese, and cooperate with the participants; (3) Voluntarily participate in this study and cooperate with investigators.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Dementia patients: (1) Patients with other mental disorders; (2) Dementia caused by brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, encephalitis, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease dementia and other diseases of the central nervous system; (3) Dementia caused by abnormal thyroid function, folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency, persistent hypoglycemia and other metabolic and nutritional deficiencies; (4) Alcoholism, drug abuse and other diseases known to cause dementia; (5) Serious physical disease or other reasons can not tolerate or cooperate with the research. 2. Caregivers: Have serious physical diseases (such as heart failure, severe liver and kidney diseases, cancer, etc.) or mental diseases.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The Neuropsychiatric Inventory, NPI;Apathy Evaluation Scale-Informant, AES-I; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Mini-Mental State Examination, MMSE;The Subscales of the Functional Assessment of Communication Skills, SFACS;Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease, QOL-AD;Activity of Daily Living, ADL;Caregiver Burden Inventory, CBI; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactLi Hong
Fujian Provincial Hospital
Outcome results
None listed