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Brief title
Health condition
Mild Cognitive Impairment; Dementia (Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia with Lewy Bodies; Fronto-Temporal Dementia)
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Persons with Dementia: Self-management will be assessed with the Self-Management Abilities Scale-shortened (SMAS-S; Steverink, 2009) and social participation by: the Maastricht Social Participation Profile (MSPP; Mars et al., 2009), ASCOT social contact (Van Leeuwen et al, 2015) and the short version of the Pleasurable Activities List (PAL; Roozen et al, 2008 & Kerkhof et al., 2019).
Carers: Sense of competence will be measured with the Short Sense of Competence Scale (SSCQ; Vernooij-Dassen, 1999)
Secondary outcome
Persons with dementia: Experienced autonomy will be assessed by the Experienced Autonomy questionnaire (Meiland & Dröes, 2010), quality of life by the Dementia Quality of Life instrument (DQoL; Brod, 1999) en and the EQ-5D-5L and behaviour and mood disruptions by the NeuroPsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q; Cummings, 1994).
Carers: Positive care experience will be assessed with the Positive Experience Scale (PES; De Boer, 2012) and quality of life with the TOPICS-MDS (informal carer) and the EQ-5D-5L
Background summary
A randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted in which people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia and carers are randomly assigned, after stratification (cohabit with carer or not) to an experimental group receiving a tablet with the FindMyApps intervention (training and selection tool) or a control group receiving usual care (i.e. receiving a tablet with a general user manual and possibility to enter the usual App store [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_store] but without the FindMyApps intervention). Two measurements will be conducted: before the intervention starts (T0) and after 3 months intervention (T1). Primary outcomes for people with dementia will be: self-management and social participation; and for carers: sense of competence. Secondary outcomes for people with dementia will be: self-efficacy, experienced autonomy, behaviour and mood symptoms, quality of life; and for carers: positive care experience and quality of life. To check if the recruited sample is representative for people with mild dementia we will compare the data of the study sample with a similar group (people with mild dementia and their carers) in the TOPIC-MDS database. An economic evaluation will be conducted from a societal perspective based on health, social and informal care and intervention costs. A budget impact analysis will be conducted from a societal, care provider and care insurer’s perspective.
Study objective
Community-dwelling people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia who receive the FindMyApps intervention benefit from higher levels of self-management and social participation than Community-dwelling people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia who receive a tablet alone.
Study design
T0; T1 = 3 months
Intervention
The FindMyApps intervention comprises three components, namely: a tablet computer, the FindMyApps app and a training session in the use of the tablet and the FindMyApps app.
Inclusion criteria
Community dwelling people with MCI (confirmed at a memory clinic) or mild dementia (MMSE 24-18; GDS 3 or 4) and their informal carers, who cohabit with or visit the person at least twice a week.
Exclusion criteria
People with moderate and severe dementia (MMSE<18) and people with severe eye-sight problems or blindness will be excluded from the study.
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL8157 |
| Other | METC VUmc : 2019.605 |