A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia
Background: People with dementia progressively lose abilities and are prone to falling. Exercise- and activity-based interventions hold the prospect of increasing abilities, reducing falls, and slowing decline in cognition. Current falls prevention approaches are poorly suited to people with demen...
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| author | Harwood, Rowan H. van der Wardt, Veronika Goldberg, Sarah E. Keamey, Fiona Logan, Pip Hood-Moore, Victoria Booth, Victoria Hancox, Jennie E. Masud, Tahir Hoare, Zoe Brand, Andrew Tudor Edwards, Rhiannon Jones, Carys das Nair, Roshan Pollock, Kristian Godfrey, Maureen Gladman, John R.F. Vedhara, Kavita Smith, Helen Orrell, Martin |
| author_facet | Harwood, Rowan H. van der Wardt, Veronika Goldberg, Sarah E. Keamey, Fiona Logan, Pip Hood-Moore, Victoria Booth, Victoria Hancox, Jennie E. Masud, Tahir Hoare, Zoe Brand, Andrew Tudor Edwards, Rhiannon Jones, Carys das Nair, Roshan Pollock, Kristian Godfrey, Maureen Gladman, John R.F. Vedhara, Kavita Smith, Helen Orrell, Martin |
| author_sort | Harwood, Rowan H. |
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| description | Background:
People with dementia progressively lose abilities and are prone to falling. Exercise- and activity-based interventions hold the prospect of increasing abilities, reducing falls, and slowing decline in cognition. Current falls prevention approaches are poorly suited to people with dementia, however, and are of uncertain effectiveness. We used multiple sources, and a co-production approach, to develop a new intervention, which we will evaluate in a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT), with embedded adherence, process and economic analyses.
Methods:
We will recruit people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia from memory assessment clinics, and a family member or carer. We will randomise participants between a therapy programme with high intensity supervision over 12 months, a therapy programme with moderate intensity supervision over 3 months, and brief falls assessment and advice as a control intervention. The therapy programmes will be delivered at home by mental health specialist therapists and therapy assistants. We will measure activities of daily living, falls and a battery of intermediate and distal health status outcomes, including activity, balance, cognition, mood and quality of life. The main aim is to test recruitment and retention, intervention delivery, data collection and other trial processes in advance of a planned definitive RCT. We will also study motivation and adherence, and conduct a process evaluation to help understand why results occurred using mixed methods, including a qualitative interview study and scales measuring psychological, motivation and communication variables. We will undertake an economic study, including modelling of future impact and cost to end-of-life, and a social return on investment analysis.
Discussion:
In this study, we aim to better understand the practicalities of both intervention and research delivery, and to generate substantial new knowledge on motivation, adherence and the approach to economic analysis. This will enable us to refine a novel intervention to promote activity and safety after a diagnosis of dementia, which will be evaluated in a definitive randomised controlled trial.
Trial registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02874300; ISRCTN 10550694. |
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| spelling | nottingham-498662020-05-04T19:32:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49866/ A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia Harwood, Rowan H. van der Wardt, Veronika Goldberg, Sarah E. Keamey, Fiona Logan, Pip Hood-Moore, Victoria Booth, Victoria Hancox, Jennie E. Masud, Tahir Hoare, Zoe Brand, Andrew Tudor Edwards, Rhiannon Jones, Carys das Nair, Roshan Pollock, Kristian Godfrey, Maureen Gladman, John R.F. Vedhara, Kavita Smith, Helen Orrell, Martin Background: People with dementia progressively lose abilities and are prone to falling. Exercise- and activity-based interventions hold the prospect of increasing abilities, reducing falls, and slowing decline in cognition. Current falls prevention approaches are poorly suited to people with dementia, however, and are of uncertain effectiveness. We used multiple sources, and a co-production approach, to develop a new intervention, which we will evaluate in a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT), with embedded adherence, process and economic analyses. Methods: We will recruit people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia from memory assessment clinics, and a family member or carer. We will randomise participants between a therapy programme with high intensity supervision over 12 months, a therapy programme with moderate intensity supervision over 3 months, and brief falls assessment and advice as a control intervention. The therapy programmes will be delivered at home by mental health specialist therapists and therapy assistants. We will measure activities of daily living, falls and a battery of intermediate and distal health status outcomes, including activity, balance, cognition, mood and quality of life. The main aim is to test recruitment and retention, intervention delivery, data collection and other trial processes in advance of a planned definitive RCT. We will also study motivation and adherence, and conduct a process evaluation to help understand why results occurred using mixed methods, including a qualitative interview study and scales measuring psychological, motivation and communication variables. We will undertake an economic study, including modelling of future impact and cost to end-of-life, and a social return on investment analysis. Discussion: In this study, we aim to better understand the practicalities of both intervention and research delivery, and to generate substantial new knowledge on motivation, adherence and the approach to economic analysis. This will enable us to refine a novel intervention to promote activity and safety after a diagnosis of dementia, which will be evaluated in a definitive randomised controlled trial. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02874300; ISRCTN 10550694. Biomed Central 2018-02-17 Article PeerReviewed Harwood, Rowan H., van der Wardt, Veronika, Goldberg, Sarah E., Keamey, Fiona, Logan, Pip, Hood-Moore, Victoria, Booth, Victoria, Hancox, Jennie E., Masud, Tahir, Hoare, Zoe, Brand, Andrew, Tudor Edwards, Rhiannon, Jones, Carys, das Nair, Roshan, Pollock, Kristian, Godfrey, Maureen, Gladman, John R.F., Vedhara, Kavita, Smith, Helen and Orrell, Martin (2018) A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4 . 49/1-49/12. ISSN 2055-5784 Dementia; Activities of daily living; Therapeutic exercise; Occupational therapy; Physiotherapy; Falls; Randomised controlled trial; Adherence; Economic evaluation; Process evaluation https://pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40814-018-0239-y doi:10.1186/s40814-018-0239-y doi:10.1186/s40814-018-0239-y |
| spellingShingle | Dementia; Activities of daily living; Therapeutic exercise; Occupational therapy; Physiotherapy; Falls; Randomised controlled trial; Adherence; Economic evaluation; Process evaluation Harwood, Rowan H. van der Wardt, Veronika Goldberg, Sarah E. Keamey, Fiona Logan, Pip Hood-Moore, Victoria Booth, Victoria Hancox, Jennie E. Masud, Tahir Hoare, Zoe Brand, Andrew Tudor Edwards, Rhiannon Jones, Carys das Nair, Roshan Pollock, Kristian Godfrey, Maureen Gladman, John R.F. Vedhara, Kavita Smith, Helen Orrell, Martin A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title | A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title_full | A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title_fullStr | A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title_short | A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| title_sort | development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia |
| topic | Dementia; Activities of daily living; Therapeutic exercise; Occupational therapy; Physiotherapy; Falls; Randomised controlled trial; Adherence; Economic evaluation; Process evaluation |
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