Effectiveness of Flash Mediation Therapy

Summary

In order to offer a non-drug intervention for caregivers in nursing home to respond promptly to a behavioral crisis with an appropriate response to each patient, a chariot has been developed by the Institute of Ageing Well Korian (Institut du Bien Vieillir Korian) to bring together eleven mediation activities. These activities lasting about 15 minutes are based on emotion (reminiscent, games) and sensory interventions (music, massage, touch) to decentralize patient stimulus that disturbs and focus on a subject not disruptive. This emergency intervention should provide a reduction in Behavioral and Psychological Symptom of Dementia (BPSD) of nursing home patients. The main objective is to measure its immediate effect on productive symptoms (agitation, aberrant motor behavior and disinhibition). The secondary objectives are to measure its immediate impact on the well-being and psychotropic treatments, and measure its effect after two months and after four months on all BPSD with a focus on agitation, the administration of psychotropic drugs, the hospitalizations and the number of falls.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

2 months control condition - 4 months chariot-flash

The control condition is to propose the usual procedures for the management of productive symptoms during the emergence or increase of these symptoms. The "chariot-flash" condition is a chariot with eleven drawers. Each drawer contains an activity (lasting about 15 minutes): * Boards of known photographs to recall autobiographical memories * Newspapers to read, talk, associate memories around an article * Massage Oil, refreshing wipes, cream to reconnect with the body * Clay, cookie pieces, washable felt and paper to create shapes, draw. * Walk with a person of the healthcare team the case of behavioral disorders in type of ambulation and untimely exit . * Listening to music * Relaxation-Breathing * Cushion, foam balls to vent his energy on secure hardware. * Plush doll or to invest a vector object of affection and empathy * Sensory flash balls that the patient can squeeze, throw, roll. * Games with which the patient can play according to its possibilities.

BEHAVIORAL

4 months control condition-2 months chariot flash

The control condition is to propose the usual procedures for the management of productive symptoms during the emergence or increase of these symptoms. The "chariot-flash" condition is a chariot with eleven drawers. Each drawer contains an activity (lasting about 15 minutes): * Boards of known photographs to recall autobiographical memories * Newspapers to read, talk, associate memories around an article * Massage Oil, refreshing wipes, cream to reconnect with the body * Clay, cookie pieces, washable felt and paper to create shapes, draw. * Walk with a person of the healthcare team the case of behavioral disorders in type of ambulation and untimely exit . * Listening to music * Relaxation-Breathing * Cushion, foam balls to vent his energy on secure hardware. * Plush doll or to invest a vector object of affection and empathy * Sensory flash balls that the patient can squeeze, throw, roll. * Games with which the patient can play according to its possibilities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Pierre Krolak Salmon · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-05-31

Primary Completion

2017-03-31

Completion

2017-03-31

Countries

• France

Study Locations