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Favorite music and hand massage
— two interventions to decrease agitation in residents with dementia | | Author(s) | Sandee L Hicks-Moore, Bryn A Robinson |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 7, no 1, February 2008 |
| Pages | pp 95-108 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Alternative medicine ; Music ; Therapy ; Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Agitation in individuals with dementia living in the nursing home environment affects care and quality of life. Relaxation techniques such as music and massage are showing promise to decrease agitation and improve quality of life in individuals with dementia. Using an experimental 3x3 repeated measures design, 41 residents in three nursing homes in New Brunswick, Canada with mild to moderate dementia participated in a study to test the effectiveness of favourite music (FM) and hand massage (HM) in reducing agitated behaviours. Agitated residents were randomly assigned to either the treatment or control groups. Residents in the treatment group received each of three treatments, HM, FM, and HMFM, with each treatment lasting 10 minutes. Residents in the control group received no treatment. Agitation was measured using the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) at three different intervals. The results suggest that FM and HM individually and combined are effective in significantly decreasing agitation immediately following the intervention and also one hour post intervention. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080303205 A |
| Classmark | LK3: HH: LO: EA: EP: 4C: 7S |
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