Social Interactions Between People With Dementia in Nursing Home

Paris West University Nanterre La Défense

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Interactions; Dementia

Treatments: Other: Psychosocial stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02403245

SID010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the direct impact of one session of social stimulation on social interactions of people with moderate dementia living in nursing home in comparison of one session without direct social stimulation.

Full description

60 people with moderate dementia living in a french nursing homme participated in this study. Residents gave oral consent twice to participate. They were classified in groups of six residents taking into account socio-demographic and medical characteristics. Two experimental conditions were proposed : 1. a social stimulation session (36 residents) and 2. a control group without direct social stimulation (24 residents). Collected socio-demographic and medical characteristics are age, gender, timf of institutionalization, sociocultural level, marital status and diagnostic hypothesis. Before the study, scales and questionnaires were used to assess cognitive status with the Mini Mental State Examination (Folstein et al, 1975); functional abilities with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (Lawton and Brody, 1969); depression with the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (Alexopoulos et al, 1988); psychological and behavioural disorders with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (Cummings et al, 1994); and the quality of life with the Alzheimer's Disease Related Quality of Life (Rabins et al, 1999).

Social interactions are video taped and analyzed in a grid of observation.

The aim of the study is to see if there is an impact on social interactions after just one social stimulation session compared to a control group situation. Expected results are that residents of the social stimulation group will have more social interactions between us than the resident of the control group.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• presence of a diagnostic of dementia in medical report and a MMSE score between 9 and 20.

Exclusion criteria

• arrival in the institution dating less than six months
• invalidating visual or hearing disorders
• phasic disorders not allowing a minimum of communication
• significant behavioural disorders (which can disturb the meeting)
• residents not fluent in French language

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychosocial stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

One session of a social stimulation

Treatment:

Other: Psychosocial stimulation

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Residents are in a social controlled condition but without direct stimulation.