Trial reportClinical interventions in aging2021
Journeying through Dementia Randomised Controlled Trial of a Psychosocial Intervention for People Living with Early Dementia: Embedded Qualitative Study with Participants, Carers and Interventionists.
Trial report in Clinical interventions in aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living With Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Pooled it
- Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living With Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Pooled it
- The Effects of Exergaming on the Depressive Symptoms of People With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of process evaluations for psychosocial interventions designed to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of community-dwelling people with dementia and their carers.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Embedding patient and public involvement in dementia research: Reflections from experiences during the 'Journeying through Dementia' randomised controlled trial.Dementia (London, England) · 2022Trial
- Assessing fidelity of a community based psychosocial intervention for people with mild dementia within a large randomised controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2021Trial
- Participant perspectives on online interventions for diverse caregivers of persons living with dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
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- Participatory Research Approaches in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Literature: A Scoping Review.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- The role of massive demographic databases in intractable illnesses: Denomics for dementia.AIMS public health · 2022Article
- The implementation of Journeying through Dementia: Strategies to run a successful pragmatic multicenter trial of a complex intervention.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Health Promotion in Early-Stage Dementia: A Focused Ethnographic Study of a 12-Week Group-Based Educational Intervention.SAGE open nursingArticle
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo identify the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a complex psychosocial intervention though a study exploring the experiences of participants, carers and interventionists during a trial.
methodsIndividual semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants, their carers, and interventionists from a sample of recruiting sites that took part in the Journeying through Dementia randomized controlled trial (RCT). Interview data were transcribed and analysed using framework analysis. Co-researcher data analysis workshops were also conducted to explore researcher interpretations of the data through the lens of those with lived experience of dementia. Triangulation enabled comparison of findings from the interviews with findings from the co-researcher workshops.
resultsThree main themes emerged from the interview data: being prepared; intervention engagement; and participation and outcomes from engagement. From these themes, a number of factors that can moderate delivery and receipt of the intervention as intended were identified. These were context and environment; readiness, training, skills and competencies of the workforce; identifying meaningful participation and relationships.
conclusionThis study highlighted that the observed benefit of the intervention was nuanced for each individual. Mechanisms of change were influenced by a range of individual, social and contextual factors. Future research should therefore consider how best to identify and measure the multifaceted interplay of mechanisms of change in complex interventions.
trial registrationISRCTN17993825.
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