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Bathing Persons With Alzheimer's Disease aT Home (The BATH Study)

NCT00062569 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2009-03-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a 3-week reminiscence intervention applied during bathing persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in decreasing resistiveness to care (RTC), relieving patient discomfort, and improving spouse caregiver appraisals of burden, capabilities and confidence while bathing the patient. Reminiscence provides opportunities for the patient to feel good and recall pleasant memories, easily done by caregivers in a home setting. Home visits and telephone calls from trained nurses provide coaching and practice for caregivers for the preliminary phase of this study. Each couple will be enrolled in the study for approximately 9 weeks. The study will recruit 100 patient/spouse caregiver couples randomly divided into one of two groups: reminiscence with coaching, or bathing support (control). Bathing support will be provided to participants in both conditions including: individualized assessment; education regarding bathing techniques for people with dementia; and individualized problem solving. In addition to the bathing support intervention, participants in the experimental group will receive a pleasant memories interview and reminiscence script with coaching for implementation. Caregivers will keep a journal of their experiences in bathing the care recipient.

Conditions

  • Alzheimer Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Bathing Support Intervention (BSI)

Bathing Support Intervention - Review of caregiver current practices and perceptions and care recipient behavioral symptoms associated with bathing with pattern analysis based on observation; skill building for bathing and communication techniques; coaching for implementation

BEHAVIORAL

Caregiver reminiscence with coaching

BSI plus Reminiscence - BSI as above plus caregiver interview to ascertain pleasant long-term memories (e.g. stories, pictures, music) developed into a "crib sheet" for caregiver use conversationally prior to and during the bath

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Ellen K. Mahoney, DNS, RN · Boston College, William F. Connell School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-09-30
Primary Completion
2006-06-30
Completion
2006-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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