Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in Elderly Care (MIDDEL)
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- End date
- Jul 22, 2025
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- participants needed
- 1000
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- sponsor
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Summary
This study evaluates the effectiveness of two music-based approaches - group music therapy and recreational choir singing - for reducing depression symptoms in people living with dementia. It also examines mechanisms and heterogeneity of treatment effects.
Description
Dementia and depression are highly prevalent and comorbid conditions in older adults and are associated with individual distress, substantial carer burden, and high societal costs.
Music interventions represent a highly promising type of non-pharmacological interventions for both dementia and depression in older adults. They are widely used, but have yet to be rigorously tested in large trials.
The MIDDEL trial is the largest trial of music interventions to date, and the first to compare different music-based interventions - group music therapy (GMT), and recreational choir singing (RCS) - alone and in combination across countries.
MIDDEL is designed as a large, pragmatic, international cluster-randomised controlled trial with a 2x2 factorial design that will compare the effects of GMT, RCS, both, or neither, for care home residents aged 65 years or older with dementia and depressive symptoms.
Study sites will be located in Australia and in five European countries, and a total of 100 care home units will be randomised to one of the four study conditions.
Details
| Condition | Dementia, Depression |
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| Treatment | Standard Care, Group Music Therapy, Recreational Choir Singing |
| Clinical Study Identifier | NCT03496675 |
| Sponsor | NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS |
| Last Modified on | 22 March 2022 |
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