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

NCT ID: NCT04293263

Last Updated: 2020-03-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-04-01

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Dementia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

MCI patients hospitalised in the research departments

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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

2gether app used by trained personal

Intervention Type: COMBINATION_PRODUCT

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.

Musical partner - A person trained in the program's work plan, which includes contact with empathic listening and the use of a dedicated application developed for it. A musical partner will meet with the same elderly person throughout the study period.

Empathetic listening - a situation in which a person listens to music with another person, while the music enables contact and deepening the connection between people.

MCI patients hospitalized in the research departments

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.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

2gether app used by trained personal

Intervention Type: COMBINATION_PRODUCT

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.

Musical partner - A person trained in the program's work plan, which includes contact with empathic listening and the use of a dedicated application developed for it. A musical partner will meet with the same elderly person throughout the study period.

Empathetic listening - a situation in which a person listens to music with another person, while the music enables contact and deepening the connection between people.

Interventions

2gether app used by trained personal

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.

Musical partner - A person trained in the program's work plan, which includes contact with empathic listening and the use of a dedicated application developed for it. A musical partner will meet with the same elderly person throughout the study period.

Empathetic listening - a situation in which a person listens to music with another person, while the music enables contact and deepening the connection between people.

Intervention Type: COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Other Intervention Names

Listen to random music twice a week for about 40 minutes each time, on personal headphones.

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

2gether

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Central Contacts

Oron Azulay, MA

Role: CONTACT

oron@2gether.fun

972525402281

Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id