Music Intervention With Reminiscence Therapy and Reality Orientation for Elderly People With Alzheimer Disease Living in a Nursing Home: A Pilot Study
Onieva-Zafra MD, Hernández-Garcia L, Gonzalez-Del-Valle MT, Parra-Fernández ML, Fernandez-Martinez E
Holistic nursing practice · 15 citations
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- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
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- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2017-11-28 · Holist Nurs Pract · vol. 32 · issue 1 · pp. 43–50
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Cited
- 28 citations · more than 73% of similar papers · 0.8× the field average
- References
- 42 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Music Therapy and Health
- Keywords
- Music therapy, Intervention (counseling), Reminiscence, Anxiety, Active listening, Dementia, Psychological intervention, Depression (economics), Psychology, Orientation (vector space), Medicine, Disease, Psychotherapist, Clinical psychology, Nursing, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- humans, alzheimer disease, music therapy, pilot projects, orientation, depression, aged, aged, 80 and over, nursing homes, spain, female, male
5 authors
From AR, VE, ES
- María Dolores Onieva Zafra · correspondingHospital Fernández; Universidad Dr. José Gregorio Hernández
- Laura Hernández-GarcíaHospital Fernández; Hospital de Poniente; Universidad Dr. José Gregorio Hernández; University of Almería; University of Castilla-La Mancha
- María Teresa Gonzalez-del-ValleHospital Fernández; Hospital de Poniente; Universidad Dr. José Gregorio Hernández; University of Almería; University of Castilla-La Mancha
- María Laura Parra-FernándezHospital Fernández; Hospital de Poniente; Universidad Dr. José Gregorio Hernández; University of Almería; University of Castilla-La Mancha
- Elia Fernández MartínezHospital Fernández; Hospital de Poniente; Universidad Dr. José Gregorio Hernández; University of Almería; University of Castilla-La Mancha
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an 8-week nursing intervention consisting of 2 weekly sessions of music and reminiscence therapy together with the application of reality orientation techniques. Our expectation at the onset of the study was that listening to music that was familiar and connected with the memory of past events would, due to the music's emotional impact, stimulate memory associations, leading, in turn, to a positive effect on depression and anxiety in people living with dementia. We carried out a pre-/posttest intervention design with a sample of 19 patients divided into 2 groups-a 10-patient control group and a 9-patient intervention group-in a nursing home in Spain. Goldberg tests for depression and anxiety have been assessed at baseline and postintervention in both groups. Our results confirm the valuable effect of music therapy and reminiscence therapy together with reality orientation techniques on depression in patients with mild Alzheimer disease. Our study may constitute an important starting point for further research on nursing interventions based on the provision of music and/or reminiscence therapy together with reality orientation techniques that is implemented on a daily basis in nursing homes.
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