Journal article
Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in ELderly care (MIDDEL): protocol and statistical analysis plan for a multinational cluster-randomised trial
Christian Gold, Jasmin Eickholt, Jorg Assmus, Brynjulf Stige, Jo Dugstad Wake, Felicity Anne Baker, Jeanette Tamplin, Imogen Clark, Young-Eun Claire Lee, Stine Lindahl Jacobsen, Hanne Mette Ochsner Ridder, Gunter Kreutz, Dorothea Muthesius, Thomas Wosch, Enrico Ceccato, Alfredo Raglio, Mirella Ruggeri, Annemiek Vink, Sytse Zuidema, Helen Odell-Miller Show all
BMJ OPEN | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: In older adults, dementia and depression are associated with individual distress and high societal costs. Music interventions such as group music therapy (GMT) and recreational choir singing (RCS) have shown promising effects, but their comparative effectiveness across clinical subgroups is unknown. This trial aims to determine effectiveness of GMT, RCS and their combination for care home residents and to examine heterogeneity of treatment effects across subgroups. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This large, pragmatic, multinational cluster-randomised controlled trial with a 2×2 factorial design will compare the effects of GMT, RCS, both or neither, for care home residents aged 65 years ..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Grant (grant number APP1137853) and by intramural support from Uni Research AS and University Medical Center Groningen.