Clinical trial NCT03890796: Activity Scheduling for Older Adults With Dementia
Official title: Application of Activity Scheduling to Enhance Quality of Life for Older Adults With Dementia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Older Adults With Mild to Moderate Level of Dementia
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-03-26
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study model is longitudinal, single-blind, parallel group experiment.
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: This study is to evaluate the results from an intervention designed to encourage older adults with dementia for their engagement in activities through their active participation of activity scheduling (AS).

Detailed description: The study compares two interventions by using a 12-week longitudinal randomized controlled trial. For the first 2 weeks, all participants receive the same health care education program. Then for the following 10 weeks, participants will be randomized to either one of the two following groups with different conditions. For the control group, participants receive ten session of dementia care education. For the experimental activity scheduling group, participants receive ten session of dementia care education, plus weekly activity scheduling (AS) practice that focus on pleasant event scheduling and improving communication.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* patients had to have an age of at least 65 years,
* a diagnosis for dementia in medical history and had to meet international classification of disease-10 criteria for dementia,
* diagnosed by a psychiatrist.
* patients had to have cognitive impairment, as determined by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Exclusion Criteria:

* any major neurological illness other than AD,
* any psychiatric disorder or a known history of substance abuse.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Chinese version of the Caregiver Burden Interview Scale (Chinese ZBIS)
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist (RMBPT)
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Chinese Caregiver Activity Survey (Chinese CAS)
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Cantonese Chinese version of Quality of Life in Chinese Alzheimer's Disease (The Cantonese Chinese QOL-AD)
timeFrame: 12 months
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: Women's Welfare Club Western District
Study officials:
References:
citation: Andersen CK, Wittrup-Jensen KU, Lolk A, Andersen K, Kragh-Sorensen P. Ability to perform activities of daily living is the main factor affecting quality of life in patients with dementia. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2004 Sep 21;2:52. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-52.
citation: Dozeman E, van Schaik DJ, van Marwijk HW, Stek ML, Beekman AT, van der Horst HE. Feasibility and effectiveness of activity-scheduling as a guided self-help intervention for the prevention of depression and anxiety in residents in homes for the elderly: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. Int Psychogeriatr. 2011 Aug;23(6):969-78. doi: 10.1017/S1041610211000202. Epub 2011 Feb 22.