NCT04101084: Rocking

Rocking Chair Therapy in Elderly With Dementia: Its Effects on Agitation

Status unknown NA Last updated 18 March 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Therapy in Dementia in 12 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

25 October 2019

Primary endpoint
18 April 2023

18 April 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	12
Start date	25 October 2019
Primary completion	18 April 2023
Estimated completion	18 April 2024
Sites	1 location across France

Drugs / interventions tested

• Therapy

Conditions studied

• Dementia — all drugs for Dementia →

Sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Dementia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Patients with dementia exhibit a wide range of behavioral symptoms which include mood disturbances (e.g depression, anxiety), behavior and activity disturbances (e.g agitation, aggression, wandering) and psychotic symptoms (e.g hallucinations and delusions). Behavioral disturbances are a major source of caregiver burden and an important contributor to the decision to admit AD patients to institutionalized long-term care.

Among the innovative approaches, rocking chair therapy has been introduced as a potential means for reducing agitation in elderly with dementia. Only few studies evaluated the effect of this therapy on the behavioral symptoms in elderly with cognitive impairment. The results were promising, but not sufficiently significant.

We propose to perform this study having as a main goal to evaluate the effect of the rocking chair therapy in agitation for home care residents with dementia. The secondary aim of the study will be the evaluation of psychoactive drugs use as well as pain killers. Cohen Mansfield agitation inventory will be employed for the pre- and post-therapy evaluation.

Included subjects will be installed in groups of five, rocking chairs will be placed away from other residents in a semicircle in a corner of the dayroom. The therapy sessions will be held every afternoon, for two hours, under the supervision of the unit psychologist and a master's degree psychology student. During the daily session, each resident should be encouraged to actively rock to reach the goal of 60 minutes of rocking accumulated per day. The total duration of the therapy period will be 6 weeks. The use of pharmacological restraint (neuroleptics, anxiolytics) and pain killers will be evaluated before, during and after the six weeks therapy.

The expected outcome is a reduction of agitation among elderly with dementia, as well as a reduction in the use of pharmacological restraint and pain killers.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.