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Doll Therapy on Patients With Moderate and Severe Dementia

NCT04120103 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 29

Last updated 2021-08-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Doll therapy is one of the non-pharmacological methods that can be practiced in managing the symptoms of dementia patients. Nurses can practice doll therapy independently, and literature reports that it has positive effects on the behaviors, moods, emotions, cognitive states and social life of patients with moderate and severe dementia. Our country had no study that investigated the effect of doll therapy in managing the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of dementia patients. This project is a randomized controlled trial that aims to investigate the effect of Doll therapy on the cognitive states and agitation levels of patients with moderate and severe dementia.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Doll therapy

The patient will then be given the doll to be used in the research by the caregiver and the researcher. Intervention group (accepting the baby) will be evaluated in terms of interaction with the baby, communication with employees and other patients and participation in daily life activities for 60 days. In addition, the agitation symptoms of the patients during the 60 days they spend with the baby will be evaluated by CMAI and cognitive level by MMSE.

OTHER

Routine nursing care

The nursing care provided by the institution was applied to the dementia patients in the routine nursing care group. Routine nursing care group interventions in the institution; Monitoring of life signs, application of drug treatments, participation in social activities such as listening to music, reading prayer, initiatives such as assisting patients in performing daily living activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cemile KÜTMEÇ YILMAZ, Dr · Aksaray University, Faculty of Health Science, Nursing Department, Turkey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-08
Primary Completion
2019-10-30
Completion
2019-10-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

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