Home-based Massage by Caregivers for Dementia

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Massage

Burden

Dementia

Treatments

Other: Home-based massage by caregivers for dementia

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05009147

CTH-109-2-5-025

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of manual massage on improving behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and sense of burden among caregivers.

Full description

A total of 40 patients with dementia and their family caregivers will be included and randomly allocated to experiment (n=20) or control group (n=20). The experiment and control group will receive whole body manual massage and placebo intervention (30 minutes once per week for 8 continuous weeks), respectively.

Enrollment

40 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Over 65 years old, diagnosed with dementia, agitation or depression, irregular massage and exercise habits.

Exclusion criteria

Those who have open wounds, inflammation, infection, burns and scalds, artificial blood vessels in the hands, or diagnosed as inappropriate for massage in the near future, the severity of symptoms affects the study participants.