Individualized music for people with dementia - Improvement of quality of life and social participation for people with dementia in institutional care

Conditions

F00 F01 F02 F03

Mareike C. Hillebrand, Lisette Weise, Marlena L. Itz, Elisabeth Jakob, Gabriele Wilz

Clinical Gerontologist2024-11-242 citations

10.1080/07317115.2024.2429590

Immediate effects of individualized music listening on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A randomized controlled trial

Mareike C. Hillebrand, Lisette Weise, Gabriele Wilz

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry2023-02-2520 citations

10.1002/gps.5893

Study protocol: individualized music for people with dementia - improvement of quality of life and social participation for people with dementia in institutional care.

Weise L, Jakob E, Töpfer NF, Wilz G.

2018-12-149 citations

10.1186/s12877-018-1000-3

Interventions

Group 1: Over a period of 6 weeks, the intervention group participants will listen to their individualized music playlist through headphones every other day for 20 minutes in the presence of employees

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Care-dependent people with a dignosed dementia, living in a nursing home

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: hearing problems

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Quality of life a) external assessment by the nursing staff at all four assessment points: mood, sleep quality, social participation (assessed with a visual analogue scale, based on Wilz & Soellner, 2015), depressive symptoms (assessed with the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, CSDD) b) Observation of behavior will be conducted three times during the intervention period using an adapted rating scale: emotional and motor changes (facial expression, body movement, other (positive) reactions), activation regarding social participation 2. Problem behavior: a) external assessment by the nursing staff at all four assessment points: resistance to care (assessed with a visual analogue scale, based on Wilz & Soellner, 2015), problem behavior/behavioral syndromes (assessed with the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) and the Nurses Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients (NOSGER II) b) Observation of behavior (see above): appearance of problem behavior or other negative reactions Assessment points: 6 weeks before start of the intervention (T0) beginning of the intervention (T1) directly after the intervention (T2) follow-up 6 weeks after the end of the intervention (T3)	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Quality of life a) external assessment by the nursing staff at all four assessment points: mood, sleep quality, social participation (assessed with a visual analogue scale, based on Wilz & Soellner, 2015), depressive symptoms (assessed with the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, CSDD) b) Observation of behavior will be conducted three times during the intervention period using an adapted rating scale: emotional and motor changes (facial expression, body movement, other (positive) reactions), activation regarding social participation 2. Problem behavior: a) external assessment by the nursing staff at all four assessment points: resistance to care (assessed with a visual analogue scale, based on Wilz & Soellner, 2015), problem behavior/behavioral syndromes (assessed with the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) and the Nurses Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients (NOSGER II) b) Observation of behavior (see above): appearance of problem behavior or other negative reactions Assessment points: 6 weeks before start of the intervention (T0) beginning of the intervention (T1) directly after the intervention (T2) follow-up 6 weeks after the end of the intervention (T3)

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
At the second assessment point, the nursing staff will evaluate the acceptance and applicability of the intervention using a self-developed questionnaire	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactLisette;Elisabeth Weise;Jakob

Friedrich-Schille-Universität Jena;Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

lisette.weise@uni-jena.de;elisabeth.jakob@uni-jena.de03641 945955;03641 945948

Outcome results

None listed