Doll Therapy for Agitated Elderly Dementia People (DT)

Karadeniz Technical University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Agitation; Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: doll therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06578819

25/10/2023 date and 2023/5

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to determine the effect of doll therapy on the levels of agitation, nutrition, and daily living activities in elderly patients with dementia and agitation.

Full description

Elderly patients with agitation and dementia incur significant costs for healthcare services. Additionally, it is known that agitation can impose a burden on caregivers and has the potential to cause harm to the individual and those around them. This study is planned to determine the effect of doll therapy on the levels of agitation, nutrition, and daily living activities in elderly patients with dementia and agitation.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with dementia
• be 65 years of age or older
• having met the DSM-IV standard for dementia diagnosis
• having a moderate dementia diagnosis
• having a severe dementia diagnosis
• having enough manual skills to hold and care for the doll
• visual acuity is sufficient to recognize the doll
• there is no communication problem
• volunteered to participate in the research
• to have the consent of the relatives patients to participate in the research.

Exclusion criteria

• having a mild dementia diagnosis
• the presence of systemic disease in the period of acute exacerbation
• who has a psychological disorder
• elderly people who experienced difficulties after two attempts in accepting a baby and forming a relationship
• elderly people who left the doll after a while despite accepting it
• elderly people who stated that dolls have a bad connotation in themselves.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 4 patient groups

experimental group (moderate dementia)

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will receive doll therapy four days a week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: doll therapy

control group (moderate dementia)

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be applied to the control group.

experimental group (severe dementia)

Experimental group

Description:

Doll therapy will be applied to the experimental group 4 days a week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: doll therapy

control group (severe dementia)

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be applied to the control group.