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ID
Source
Health condition
Dementia; dementie
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Masticatory ability
-- Two-colour chewing gum test
Secondary outcome
- Food intake
-- Weighed inventory method
- Cognition
-- Mini-Mental State Examination (this is the only cognitive test that is adminstered for participants with an MMSE score <15)
-- Eight words test (subtest ADS)
-- Picture completion (subtest GIT)
-- Letter fluency test
-- Digit span (subtest WAIS-III)
-- Face recognition and Picture recognition (subtest RBMT)
-- Category fluency tests (subtest GIT)
-- Visual memory span (subtest WMS)
- Activities of daily living
-- Katz index
- Depression
-- Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia
- Quality of life
-- DQoL
-- QUALIDEM
Background summary
This study examines the effects of video observation of chewing during lunchtime on masticatory ability, food intake, cognition, activities of daily living, depression, and quality of life in older adults with dementia, residing in residential care settings
Study objective
- Video observation of chewing during lunchtime has a beneficial effect on masticatory ability in older adults with dementia
- Video observation of chewing during lunchtime has a beneficial effect on food intake, cognition, activities of daily living, depression, and quality of life in older adults with dementia
Study design
Four moments of measurement: T1: baseline (week 0), T2: halfway through the intervention (week 7), T3: post-intervention (week 13), and T4: follow-up (week 19)
Intervention
The experimental group watches videos of people eating/chewing, and the control group watches videos of nature and buildings. Both groups watch these videos for three months, five days a week, during lunchtime. Videos are shown on tablet-PCs
Van der Boechorststraat 1
1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands
J.G. Douma
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31(0)20 5988955
j.g.douma@vu.nl
Van der Boechorststraat 1
1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands
J.G. Douma
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31(0)20 5988955
j.g.douma@vu.nl
Inclusion criteria
- Having a diagnosis of dementia (as stated in the medical status of the person)
- MMSE score of max. 25
- Age: at least 70 years
Exclusion criteria
- History of alcoholism
- Cerebral trauma
- Hydrocephalus
- Visual impairments
- Neoplasm
- History of depression
- Personality disorders, other than those based on dementia
- Disturbances of consciousness
- Dysphagia
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL4887 |
| NTR-old | NTR5124 |
| Other | AAL-project : 60-61700-98-023 / 32 030 0003 |