ArticleEClinicalMedicine2023
Home-based family caregiver-delivered music and reading interventions for people living with dementia (HOMESIDE trial): an international randomised controlled trial.
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- Barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with arts-based non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia: A systematic review.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Smartphone App-Based Music-Facilitated Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Integrating Rhythm-Guided Walking and Singing for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- A Mobile App-Based Individualized Nonpharmacological Intervention for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Relationship between dementia diagnostic characteristics and severity of depressive symptoms in a cross-sectional analysis of HOMESIDE baseline data.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Mixed methods feasibility study of Music Attuned Technology Care via eHealth (MATCH) for people with complex behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia within an acute psychogeriatric ward.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Trial
- Measures used to evaluate psychosocial interventions in dementia care: A narrative review and synthesis.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Review
- Lessons learned from the participatory development of a framework to actively involve people living with dementia, individuals from their social networks, and healthcare professionals in systematic reviews: the DECIDE-SR study.Research involvement and engagement · 2025Article
- Music therapy embedded in the life of dementia inpatient care to help prevent and manage distress: a feasibility study to inform a future trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Programmes Addressed to Informal Caregivers' Needs: A Systematic Literature Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Experiences of participant and public involvement in an international randomized controlled trial for people living with dementia and their informal caregivers.Research involvement and engagement · 2024Article
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- Factors affecting representativeness in home-based dementia activity interventions: a literature review.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
- The HOMESIDE Study-A Research Project to Support People Living With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: Preliminary Report on Reading Intervention.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
Background: Music interventions provided by qualified therapists within residential aged care are effective at attenuating behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of people with dementia (PwD). The impact of music interventions on dementia symptom management when provided by family caregivers is unclear. Methods: We implemented a community-based, large, pragmatic, international, superiority, single-masked randomised controlled trial to evaluate if caregiver-delivered music was superior to usual care alone (UC) on reducing BPSD of PwD measured by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire (NPI-Q). The study included an active control (reading). People with dementia (NPI-Q score ≥6) and their caregiver (dyads) from one of five countries were randomly allocated to caregiver-delivered music, reading, or UC with a 1:1:1 allocation stratified by site. Caregivers received three online protocolised music or reading training sessions delivered by therapists and were recommended to provide five 30-min reading or music activities per week (minimum twice weekly) over 90-days. The NPI-Q severity assessment of PwD was completed online by masked assessors at baseline, 90- (primary) and 180-days post-randomisation and analysed on an intention-to-treat basis using a likelihood-based longitudinal data analysis model. ACTRN12618001799246; ClinicalTrials.govNCT03907748. Findings: Between 27th November 2019 and 7th July 2022, we randomised 432 eligible of 805 screened dyads (music n = 143, reading n = 144, UC n = 145). There was no statistical or clinically important difference in the change from baseline BPSD between caregiver-delivered music (-0.15, 95% CI -1.41 to 1.10, p = 0.81) or reading (-1.12, 95% CI -2.38 to 0.14, p = 0.082) and UC alone at 90-days. No related adverse events occurred. Interpretation: Our findings suggested that music interventions and reading interventions delivered by trained caregivers in community contexts do not decrease enduring BPSD symptoms. Funding: Our funding was provided by National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia; The Research Council of Norway; Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany; National Centre for Research and Development, Poland; Alzheimer's Society, UK, as part of the Joint Programme for Neurodegenerative Diseases consortia scheme.
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