The Effect of Shared Listening to Personalized Music on Symptoms of Behavioral Disorders in the Elderly With Advanced Dementia

2gether

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Combination Product: 2gether app used by trained personal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04293263

001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is of great importance because it uses a method that has not been tested in the past. To date, various interventions have been examined that use music for patients with dementia. At the same time, no intervention was conducted that integrates an additional person who shares personalized music with the patient.

If the combination of another person who shares the positive effect of the music with the patient is found to enhance the positive effect of the music, it can change the routine of work with dementia patients and may even reduce the use of tranquilizers among them.

In many cases, it has been found that one of the biggest challenges for family members who treat patients with dementia is the lack of content in the sessions and as a result, the growing sense of alienation between the patient and his family.

Listening to music can be a significant tool in the hands of the family, the main caregiver, the medical staff, and any person who comes in contact with the patient, a tool that can strengthen the sense of connection and connection between them.

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalized in the Department of Mental Disorders at the Mental Health Center in Be'er Sheva aged 18 and over.
• Patients who have been diagnosed with dementia for the issue.
• Patients whose guardian gave consent for the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Hearing-impaired patients.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

MCI patients hospitalised in the research departments

Experimental group

Description:

each of the elderly in the study group will listen to personalized music twice a week for an hour each time together with a musical partner. Joint listening is performed with 2 pairs of headphones that connect via a splitter to the partner's cell phone. A listening session will take place in a period of 30 minutes and not more than 60 minutes.

Treatment:

Combination Product: 2gether app used by trained personal

MCI patients hospitalized in the research departments

Active Comparator group

Description:

each of the elderly in the control group will Listen to random music twice a week for about 40 minutes each time, on personal headphones.

Treatment:

Combination Product: 2gether app used by trained personal