Music-with-Movement Intervention for People With Early Dementia and Their Families

Summary

This study intends to use music and movement (MWM) to reduce anxiety and behavioral symptoms of people with early dementia (PWD) and their family carers in the community. It also aims to examine whether MWM can enhance the sleep quality of PWD and their family caregivers and promote their well-being.

This is a mixed methods study with the quantitative paradigm being the main research approached used. The quantitative arm will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT). The qualitative arm will adopt a naturalistic approach through interviewing for data collection. Recruited subjects from the community centres of non-government organizations (NGOs) will be randomly allocated to the intervention and control group.

The outcome measures of the PWD will include Rating Anxiety in Dementia (RAID), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PQSI), Quality of Life - Alzheimer's Disease (QOL-AD), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Revised Life Event Scale (RLES), Modified Brathel Index (MBI) and Non-pharmacological Therapy Experience Scale (NPTES), whereas the outcome measures of the family caregivers will be Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7), Zarit Burden Scale (ZBD), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Reverse Life event Scale (RLES), and World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF).

To address the research questions, data will be collected at baseline (T0), immediately post-intervention at 8-weeks (T1), and 8 post-intervention (T2). The qualitative arm of this study will contribute to the understanding of issues and effects of MWM as an intervention. Its finding will complement the results obtained from the RCT.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Anxiety
• Sleep
• Depression
• Quality of Life

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Music with movement

Participants in the intervention group will receive the intervention delivered by their family member according to the validated 8-week music with movement (MWM) intervention protocol.

BEHAVIORAL

Social interaction

The control group will receive a protocol for social interaction as the control condition, where caregivers were asked to discuss up to date news with PWeD. The design of the control condition will be highly similar to the MWM protocol in terms of the frequency and duration of the sessions, the number of people involved, and the total intervention period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kam Yuk, Claudia Lai, PhD · School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Shuk Ching, Jacqueline Ho, PhD · School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Sze Ki, Daphne Cheung, PhD · School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-31

Primary Completion

2016-05-31

Completion

2016-08-31

Countries

• Hong Kong

Study Locations