Effectiveness of a 14-week protocol for cognitive stimulation therapy for mild dementia: results from a pragmatic study using routinely collected clinical data.
Hesham Abdelkhalek, Karen Elliott, Tim Whitfield, Karina Pazvantova, Sedigheh Zabihi, Jennifer Wenborn, Zuzana Walker
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Abstract
Objectives: To explore the effectiveness of an adapted 14-week cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) protocol on psychoaffective symptoms and quality of life (QOL) for people living with mild dementia.
Method: The sample for this pragmatic study were people with dementia who underwent CST between May 2016 and September 2022 during routine healthcare. Measures of participants' psychoaffective symptoms and QOL were administered before CST ('baseline') and following CST ('post-intervention'). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was used to measure anxiety symptoms, depression symptoms, and their sum score (referred to as HADS-total). The Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease (QOL-AD) scale was used to measure participants' quality of life (both patient and carer ratings were available). Change in these outcomes was assessed using linear mixed models.
Results: Two hundred and twenty-five participants attended ≥1 session of adapted CST (84% attended at least 9/14 sessions, considered 'high' adherence). The mean change [95% confidence interval] in HADS-total scores indicated improvement (-0.9; [-1.9, -0.0]). Mean scores on the other outcomes showed neither improvement nor worsening.
Conclusion: Overall, this pragmatic study shows that an adapted 14-week face-to-face CST protocol is effective in improving mental health in people with mild dementia and has the potential to be widely implemented within routine healthcare.
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Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods.
Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.