TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hofbauer, Lena M
AU  - Rodriguez, Pd Francisca S
TI  - Comparing two caregiver-delivered music listening interventions for community-dwelling people with dementia: A randomised controlled crossover pilot trial.
JO  - Dementia
VL  - 24
IS  - 5
SN  - 1471-3012
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.]
PB  - Sage
M1  - DZNE-2025-00732
SP  - 938 - 954
PY  - 2025
AB  - Objectives: To facilitate access to music-based interventions (MBIs) for people with dementia in the community, it is necessary to develop MBIs that can be used by people with dementia and their informal caregivers at home. In this pilot trial, we aimed to establish whether using slow and fast music of positive valence in a caregiver-delivered MBI results in differential effects. Methods: 17 person-with-dementia-and-caregiver dyads were randomised. Dyads underwent 6-week periods of two music listening interventions, 'MBI A' (consisting of fast, positively valenced music) and 'MBI B' (slow, positively valenced music). The order of these was crossed-over. Half of the dyads also completed a control intervention (6-week care-as-usual). People with dementia listened on tablets or CDs provided. Quantitative assessments included person with dementia outcomes (cognition, well-being, quality of life) and caregiver-reported outcomes (behavioural and psychiatric symptom severity and related distress). Dyads' descriptions of experiences were also recorded. Results: MBI A was associated with superior delayed recall compared to MBI B (MBI A- B: 1.04 [95
KW  - Humans
KW  - Dementia: therapy
KW  - Dementia: psychology
KW  - Music Therapy: methods
KW  - Caregivers: psychology
KW  - Pilot Projects
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
KW  - Cross-Over Studies
KW  - Independent Living
KW  - Aged
KW  - Quality of Life
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - community care (Other)
KW  - informal cargeivers (Other)
KW  - music-based interventions (Other)
KW  - non-pharmacological interventions (Other)
KW  - pilot trial (Other)
KW  - randomised controlled trial (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40273464
C2  - pmc:PMC12171056
DO  - DOI:10.1177/14713012251334185
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/279355
ER  -