Trial reportBMC geriatrics2018
A randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of tai chi alongside usual care with usual care alone on the postural balance of community-dwelling people with dementia: protocol for the TACIT trial (TAi ChI for people with demenTia).
Trial report in BMC geriatrics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02864056 (A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Tai Chi Alongside Usual Care With Usual Care Alone on the Postural Balance of Community-dwelling People With Dementia), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Tai Chi Alongside Usual Care With Usual Care Alone on the Postural Balance of Community-dwelling People With Dementia
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Tai Chi on physical performance, sleep, and quality of life in older adults with mild to moderate cognitive impairment.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Trial
- A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effect of Tai Chi on the instrumented timed up and go test in people with mild to moderate dementia.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2021Trial
- Randomised Controlled Trial Of The Effect Of Tai Chi On Postural Balance Of People With Dementia.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Trial
- Co-Developing a Culturally Responsive, Theory-Informed Dyadic Mind-Body Intervention to Improve Sleep and Wellbeing in People with Dementia and Their Caregivers in the UK.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Emerging Trends and Hotspots in Tai Chi Fall Prevention: Analysis and Visualization.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Characteristics of transitional locomotor tasks performed by patients with dementia.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Evaluation of strategies to recruit and retain older people with dementia and their informal carers into a Tai Chi Trial to improve balance and prevent falls.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2022Article
- People living with dementia and their family carers' adherence to home-based Tai Chi practice.Dementia (London, England) · 2021Article
- Association between the instrumented timed up and go test and cognitive function, fear of falling and quality of life in community dwelling people with dementia.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2018Article
- Age Moderates Differences in Performance on the Instrumented Timed Up and Go Test Between People With Dementia and Their Informal Caregivers.Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001)Observational
- Feasibility and Accuracy of Different Methods for Collecting Data on Falls Among Older People With Dementia.Alzheimer disease and associated disordersArticle
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundFalls are a public health issue for the older adult population and more so for people with dementia (PWD). Compared with their cognitively intact peers, PWD are at higher risk of falls and injurious falls. This randomised controlled trial aims to test the clinical and cost effectiveness of Tai Chi to improve postural balance among community-dwelling PWD and to assess the feasibility of conducting a larger definitive trial to reduce the incidence of falls among PWD.
methodsA 3-centre parallel group randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation. One hundred and fifty community-dwelling dyads of a person with dementia and their informal carer will be recruited and assessed at baseline and at six-month follow-up. Dyads will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio to either usual care or usual care plus a Tai Chi intervention for 20 weeks. The Tai Chi intervention will consist of weekly classes (45 min' Tai Chi plus up to 45 min for informal discussion, with up to 10 dyads per class) and home-based exercises (20 min per day to be facilitated by the carer). Home practice of Tai Chi will be supported by the use of behaviour change techniques with the Tai Chi instructor at a home visit in week 3-4 of the intervention (action planning, coping planning, self-monitoring, and alarm clock reminder) and at the end of each class (feedback on home practice). The primary outcome is dynamic balance measured using the Timed Up and Go test, coinciding with the end of the 20-week intervention phase for participants in the Tai Chi arm. Secondary outcomes for PWD include functional balance, static balance, fear of falling, global cognitive functioning, visual-spatial cognitive functioning, quality of life, and falls. Secondary outcomes for carers include dynamic balance, static balance, quality of life, costs, and carer burden. DISCUSSION: This trial is the first in the UK to test the effectiveness of Tai Chi to improve balance among PWD. The trial will inform a future study that will be the first in the world to use Tai Chi in a trial to prevent falls among PWD.
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