Trial reportThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2012
Development and evaluation of a sleep education program for older adults with dementia living in adult family homes.
Trial report in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Improve Sleep in People with Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Non-pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- An Integrative Review of Nonpharmacological Interventions to Improve Sleep among Adults with Advanced Serious Illness.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Measures of fidelity of delivery of, and engagement with, complex, face-to-face health behaviour change interventions: A systematic review of measure quality.British journal of health psychology · 2017Pooled it
- Walk to a better night of sleep: testing the relationship between physical activity and sleep.Sleep health · 2019Trial
- Role of the Glymphatic System in Alzheimer's Disease and Treatment Approaches: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Circadian disruption and sleep disorders in neurodegeneration.Translational neurodegeneration · 2023Review
- Sleep Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease: Impacts of Current Medications and Prospects for Treatment.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2023Review
- The Treatment of Sleep Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disorders.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2021Review
- Correlates of Health-Related Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Article
- Sleep and β-Amyloid Deposition in Alzheimer Disease: Insights on Mechanisms and Possible Innovative Treatments.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Review
- Circadian Rhythm and Alzheimer's Disease.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Effective Dementia Education and Training for the Health and Social Care Workforce: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Review of educational research · 2017Article
- Sleep in older adults and in subjects with dementia.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2017Review
- Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Dementia.Current treatment options in neurology · 2016Review
- Management of insomnia and long-term use of sedative-hypnotic drugs in older patients.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2013Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the feasibility of implementing a Sleep Education Program (SEP) for improving sleep in adult family home (AFH) residents with dementia, and the relative efficacy of SEP compared with usual care control in a pilot randomized controlled trial.
participantsThirty-seven AFH staff-caregivers and 47 residents with comorbid dementia and sleep disturbances.
interventionSEP consisted of four training sessions with staff-caregivers to develop and implement individualized resident behavioral sleep plans. MEASUREMENTS: Treatment fidelity to the SEP was assessed following the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavior Change Consortium model utilizing trainer observations and staff-caregiver reports. Resident sleep was assessed by wrist actigraphy at baseline, 1-month posttreatment, and 6-month follow-up. Caregiver reports of resident daytime sleepiness, depression, and disruptive behaviors were also collected.
resultsEach key area of treatment fidelity (SEP delivery, receipt, enactment) was identified, measured, and yielded significant outcomes. Staff-caregivers learned how to identify sleep scheduling, daily activity, and environmental factors that could contribute to nocturnal disturbances and developed and implemented strategies for modifying these factors. SEP decreased the frequency and disturbance level of target resident nocturnal behaviors and improved actigraphically measured sleep percent and total sleep time over the 6-month follow-up period compared with the control condition.
conclusionResults suggest behavioral interventions to improve sleep are feasible to implement in adult family homes and merit further investigation as a promising intervention for use with AFH residents with dementia.
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