Effects of Musical Intervention by a Therapist (IMT) on Falling Asleep and Behavioral Regulation in a Secure Care Unit (SCU)

Summary

This is a prospective, multicenter study designed to evaluate the benefits of an evening music-based intervention on sundowning syndrome in patients with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders in a Protect lLife Unit setting.

Interventions

• Test musicale intervention · OTHER

  listenning music

• Controle: audio book · OTHER

  listenning audio books

Published eligibility criteria

Verbatim from the registry. Only the site can decide how these apply to a specific patient.

Inclusion Criteria:

* Signature of consent by the patient's legal guardian obtained after providing information
* Patients aged 60 and over who meet the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, including mainly: Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, vascular encephalopathy, alcoholic dementia, primary progressive aphasia syndrome, posterior cortical atrophy syndrome (France Alzheimer, 2024).
* Patient living in a secure care unit
* If taking psychotropic drugs, they must have been stable for 3 months
* If taking level 2 or 3 painkillers, they must have been stable for 1 month

Exclusion Criteria:

* Refusal to participate
* Participation in a study on a drug/medical device/treatment technique that may affect sleep or behavior.
* Highly sedated patients,
* Patients with acute medical instability,
* Patients with productive delusions,
* Patients who have been in the unit for less than 1 month

Sites (1)

• Saint-etienne hospital, Saint-Etienne, France · Recruiting