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Personalized Music Therapy and Agitation in Dementia

NCT02147652 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2019-09-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Symptoms of agitation include abuse or aggressive behaviour toward self or others, appropriate behaviour performed with inappropriate frequency, or behaviours that are inappropriate according to social standards. In the later stages of dementia agitation can contribute significantly to patient distress and caregiver stress, and has been associated with poor quality of life. Previous research studies have shown some evidence that personalized music played in daily care situations reduces agitation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of personalized music therapy via headphones on agitation during hygiene care (grooming).

This study will involve 60 in-patients of the Geriatric Psychiatry ward of Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. The study would take place over the span of 2 weeks and would involve listening to personalized and either non-personalized or no music during daily hygiene care (grooming). Enrolment is completely voluntary and all personal data obtained will remain confidential.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Personalized music

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carmela Tartaglia, MD, FRCPC · Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-14
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-06-30

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