Effects of Functional Exercises With Culturally Familiar Music in Mild Dementia

Medipol University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mild Dementia; Music Therapy

Treatments: Other: Music Intervention; Other: Functional Exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07123077

MedipolU-FTR-ÇÖ-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to explore how a functional exercise program, with or without culturally familiar music, affects physical function and quality of life in older adults with mild dementia. Participants were divided into two groups: one group performed functional exercises alone, while the other group performed the same exercises accompanied by music. The program was conducted twice a week for 8 weeks, with each session lasting 60 minutes. Researchers evaluated changes in daily living activities, balance level and quality of life before and after the program.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The inclusion criteria for participants were: voluntary participation, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores between 17 and 24 indicating mild dementia
• Residing in a nursing home, being over 65 years of age,
• Having no problems understanding verbal commands.

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of severe and untreated hearing impairment that would prevent them from listening to music
• A history of musculoskeletal injury or neurological deficit that could affect exercise performance
• A psychiatric disorder that could interfere with exercise compliance
• Inability to cooperate during tests and exercises, and failure to attend two consecutive sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Functional Exercise Group

Experimental group

Description:

The exercise program consisted of warm-up, strength-balance, and cool-down exercises, all of which were administered to the participants under the supervision of a physiotherapist. Necessary precautions were taken to prevent participants from falling during the standing balance exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Functional Exercises

Functional Exercise with Culturally Familiar Music Group

Experimental group

Description:

The exercise program was implemented with the same content, duration, and by the same researcher as the protocol used in the functional exercise group. Exercise sessions were conducted with music, and the music was provided by a single expert researcher. Slow-paced pieces in the Rast mode were selected for warm-up and cool-down exercises, while more upbeat pieces in the Mahur mode were used for strength and balance exercises. To enhance participants' concentration, instrumental compositions in these selected cultural music modes were used during the sessions. Instruments such as qanun, ney, kudüm, and oud were chosen to perform the compositions. The music pieces were recorded in a quiet environment and played for the participants during exercise sessions via a JBL Go Essential Bluetooth speaker (IPX7). The use of pre-recorded music provided a standardized auditory stimulus for all participants, increasing the reproducibility of of the intervention and cont

Treatment:

Other: Functional Exercises

Other: Music Intervention