Status:
COMPLETED
Effectiveness of Home Based Occupational Therapy for Dementia.
Lead Sponsor:
Technische Universität Dresden
Collaborating Sponsors:
Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
Conditions:
Dementia
Eligibility:
All Genders
55+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine if a home based occupational therapy is effective in the treatment of dementia.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Dementia (according to DSM-IV TR)
- A score 26 to 12 on the MMSE
- Must be 55 or older
- Patient is living at home or therapeutical flat sharing
- Primary care giver at least 2 days / week available at home
- Written informed consent from patient and care giver
- German as dominant language
Exclusion
- Other dementia (p.e. frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Parkinson's disease or atypical Parkinson's syndromes
- Dementia with relevant displaying behavioural problems (neuropsychiatric Inventory; NPI, Subscore ≥ 8)
- Depressive episodes (Geriatric Depression Scale, GDS (short version) ≥ 6)
- Mental disability
- Home Based Occupational Therapy for Dementia within the last 6 months
- Impairment of visual and/or acoustic cognition which does not allow Occupational Therapy
- Apoplexy with movement disorders which does not allow Occupational Therapy
- Severe physical/systemic illnesses (cardio-pulmonal, Hematological or metabolic) which do not allow participating
- Recent history of addictive disorder
- Intermittent intake of depressant medication, that likely causes an impairment of cognitive performance during the trial
- Participation in another clinical trial
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
160 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00732329
Start Date
August 1 2008
End Date
January 1 2011
Last Update
February 11 2015
Active Locations (3)
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1
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Dresden, Germany, 01307
2
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic
Günzburg, Germany, 89312
3
Department for Psychiatry, Psychosomatic und Psychotherapy (of "Park-Krankenhaus Leipzig-Südost GmbH")
Leipzig, Germany, 04289