Sensory Support Care for Elderly Patients Suffering From Alzheimer'S-type Neurodegenerative Disease (SensiCare)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Multi-sensory supportive care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01819714

2013-A00005-40 (Other Identifier)

PHRIP/2012/JD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of 3 months of "Snoezelen-type" multi-sensory care sessions on NeuroPsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q) scores for patients with Alzheimer's-type neurodegenerative disease.

Full description

The secondary objectives of this study are to study the following elements in relationship to the implementation of a "Snoezelen-type" multi-sensory care strategy for patients with Alzheimer's-type neurodegenerative disease:

A. to evaluate the effects on NPI-Q scores at 1 month, 6 months and 12 months .

B. evaluate the effects on quality of life (questionnaire QOL-AD) at 0 and 12 months.

C. assess changes in the "aggressive behavior" subsection of the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) questionnaire over 0, 1, 3, 6 and 12 months.

D. assess changes in drug consumption (anxiolytics, antidepressants, hypnotics, neuroleptics)over the study period

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient's legal representative must have given his/her informed and signed consent (or the patient if he/she is judged competent)
• The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
• Alzheimer's-type neurodegenerative pathology
• The patient has been living in the participating center for > 2 months

Exclusion criteria

• The patient's legal representative refuses to sign the consent (or the patient if he/she is judged competent)
• It is impossible to correctly inform the patient's legal representative
• The patient has already has Snoezelen-therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 1 patient group

Study population

Experimental group

Description:

Patients hospitalized at the Serre-Cavalier centre and who have Alzheimer's-type neurodegenerative disease (see inclusion criteria).

Treatment:

Other: Multi-sensory supportive care