Felicity Anne Baker, Vanessa Pac Soo, Jodie Bloska, Laura Blauth, Anna A Bukowska, Libby Flynn, Ming Hung Hsu, Edyta Janus, Kjersti Johansson, Tone Kvamme, Nicola Lautenschlager, Hayley Miller, Jonathan Pool, Agnieszka Smrokowska-Reichmann, Karette Stensæth, Kate Teggelove, Sven Warnke, Thomas Wosch, Helen Odell-Miller, Karen Lamb, Sabine Braat, Tanara Vieira Sousa, Jeanette Tamplin
BACKGROUND: Music interventions provided by qualified therapists within residential aged care are effective at attenuating behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of people with dementia (PwD). The impact of music interventions on dementia symptom management when provided by family caregivers is unclear. METHODS: We implemented a community-based, large, pragmatic, international, superiority, single-masked randomised controlled trial to evaluate if caregiver-delivered music was superior to usual care alone (UC) on reducing BPSD of PwD measured by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire (NPI-Q)...
November 2023: EClinicalMedicine