Impact of Individualized Music Listening for People With Dementia on Anxiety: A Quasi-experimental Study

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Music Listening

Treatments: Other: Individualized music listening (IML)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06032897

KMUHIRB-SV(Ⅰ)-20220050

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study was designed to evaluate the effects of Individualized music listening (IML) implemented on older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and PwD. This quasi-experimental study used convenience sampling where thirty-two elderly individuals were recruited from five community-based dementia care centers then assigned to experimental (EG, n = 16) or control (CG, n = 16) groups according to the self-reports of importance of music in their lives and according to their personal wishes. The EG received eight treatments of IML (two times per week, 20 minutes per time), while the CG received the usual activities of the care centers for four weeks when EG received IML. The anxiety levels of both groups were investigated before and after first time IML and after eighth time IML. The researcher observed positive and negative behaviors of EG before, during and after each IML per 20 minutes in each time IML.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 50 years or older;
2. Mild cognitive impairment or dementia.

Exclusion criteria

1. Can not answer questions by themselves;
2. Have the habit of listening music in the past week.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group who participated in routine activities

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The earphones were placed on individuals in the experimental group to listen to individualized music for 20 minutes. The individualized music listening were performed twice a week for four weeks, for a total of eight times.

Treatment:

Other: Individualized music listening (IML)