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Trial reportAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias2014

Effects of Multisensory Stimulation on a Sample of Institutionalized Elderly People With Dementia Diagnosis: A Controlled Longitudinal Trial.

Ana Maseda, Alba Sánchez, M Pilar Marante, Isabel González-Abraldes, Ana Buján, José Carlos Millán-Calenti

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. [Therapy strategies for repetitive vocalizations in dementia : A systematic review].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2025
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  14. Snoezelen in people with intellectual disability or dementia: A systematic review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ana MasedaDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
Alba SánchezDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
M Pilar MaranteDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
Isabel González-AbraldesDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
Ana BujánDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
José Carlos Millán-CalentiDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gerontology Research Group, University of A Coruña, Campus de Oza, A Coruña, Spain jcmillan@udc.es.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-term effects of multisensory stimulation were assessed using a "Snoezelen" room on older residents with dementia. Thirty patients were randomly assigned to 3 groups: multisensory stimulation environment (MSSE) group, individualized activities (activity) group, and control group. The MSSE and activity groups participated in two 30-minute weekly individualized intervention sessions over 16 weeks. Pre-, mid-, posttrial, and 8-week follow-up behavior, mood, cognitive, and functional impairment in basic activities of daily living were registered. Items included in the physically nonaggressive behavior factor improved significantly in post- versus pretrial in the MSSE group compared to the activity group, with no significant differences between MSSE and control groups. The MSSE and activity groups demonstrated behavior improvements and higher scores on the Cohen-Mansfield agitation inventory, verbal agitated behavior factor, and Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Nursing Home, with no significant differences between groups. The MSSE could have long-term positive effects on such neuropsychiatric symptoms in older people with dementia.

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overComplementary TherapiesDementiaFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMalePsychomotor AgitationSensationTreatment Outcomeagitationdementiaelderlymultisensory stimulation

Identifiers

PMID24604894
PMCPMC10852778

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