Table 1.
Sociodemographic description of both treatment groups (nIG = 31, nCG = 33)
| IG | CG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | (N in %) | N | (N in %) | ||
| Female | 23 | (74.2%) | 21 | (63.6%) | |
| Disorder | |||||
| Alzheimer’s Disease | 6 | (19.4%) | 16 | (48.5%) | |
| Vascular dementia | 2 | (06.5%) | 1 | (03.0%) | |
| Unspecified | 7 | (22.6%) | 3 | (09.1%) | |
| Dementia in other diseases | 16 | (51.6%) | 13 | (39.4%) | |
| Stage of severity (MMSE) | |||||
| Mild | 5 | (16.1%) | 3 | (09.1%) | |
| Moderate | 9 | (29.0%) | 6 | (18.2%) | |
| Severe | 17 | (54.8%) | 24 | (72.7%) | |
| Psychopharmacological treatment | 25 | (80.7%) | 25 | (75.8%) | |
| Treatment with cortisone | 0 | (00.0%) | 0 | (00.0%) | |
| Treatment with beta-blocker | 15 | (48.4%) | 9 | (27.3%) | |
| M | SD | M | SD | ||
| Age | 83.00 | 08.41 | 84.03 | 07.09 | |
| MMSE score | 08.10 | 01.50 | 07.00 | 01.23 | |
| Mild | 20.40 | 0.68 | 22.33 | 2.40 | |
| Moderate | 14.22 | 1.10 | 12.33 | 1.31 | |
| Severe | 1.24 | 0.55 | 3.29 | 0.75 | |
Note. Intervention group (IG), control group (CG), M and SD represent the mean and standard deviation. Stage of severity was assessed with the German version of the Mini-Mental State examination (MMSE, Folstein et al., 1975). The severity of the stages was defined as follows: mild: ≥19, moderate: 10–18, severe: ≤9