Trial reportJournal of gerontological nursing2016
Feasibility and Effect Sizes of the Revised Daily Engagement of Meaningful Activities Intervention for Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Their Caregivers.
Trial report in Journal of gerontological nursing, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Nurse-Led Interventions in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Barriers for access and utilization of dementia care services in Europe: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
- The needs and unmet needs for people living with dementia, caregivers and care workers in dementia health care systems: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Personally tailored activities for improving psychosocial outcomes for people with dementia in community settings.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Reducing Burden for Caregivers of Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2018Pooled it
- Satisfaction With a Family-Focused Intervention for Mild Cognitive Impairment Dyads.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2016Trial
- Change in Depression, Confidence, and Physical Function Among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001)Trial
- Promoting Daily Engagement in Meaningful Activity (DEMA) for people with cognitive impairment and their caregivers: Protocol for a randomized clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Surviving aging-An assets-based approach.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Development of a Psychological Intervention to Promote Meaningful Activity in People Living With Mild Dementia: An Intervention Mapping Approach.The Gerontologist · 2022Review
- The effects of a dyadic strength-based empowerment program on the health outcomes of people with mild cognitive impairment and their family caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Article
- In the Information Age, do dementia caregivers get the information they need? Semi-structured interviews to determine informal caregivers' education needs, barriers, and preferences.BMC geriatrics · 2016Article
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Abstract
A nurse-led intervention, Daily Engagement of Meaningful Activities (DEMA), was evaluated for feasibility and effect sizes in a two-group randomized pilot study with 36 patient-caregiver dyads (17 DEMA and 19 attention control). Effect sizes were estimated on 10 outcomes: dyad functional ability awareness congruence; patients' meaningful activity performance and satisfaction, confidence, depressive symptoms, communication satisfaction, physical function, and life satisfaction; and caregivers' depressive symptoms and life changes. High feasibility of DEMA was supported by the following indicators: consent (97.7%), session completion (91.7%), and Time 3 measure completion (97.2%). Compared to the attention control group, the DEMA group had higher dyad congruence in functional ability awareness and life satisfaction 3 months post-intervention and improved physical function at 2 weeks post-intervention. Although DEMA showed high feasibility and benefits on some health-related outcomes, further testing of DEMA in a larger randomized controlled clinical trial is needed.
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