Pimouguet 2019.
Study name | MatheoAlz trial (Maintenance of Occupational Therapy in Alzheimer’s disease) |
Methods | Pragmatic randomised controlled trial |
Participants | People with dementia with mild or moderate dementia living at home and receiving support from an informal caregiver |
Interventions | Intervention: occupational therapy (12 to 15 initial sessions of OT over 3/4 months (usual care) and 8 extra home sessions over 4 supplementary months) Control: usual care (12 to 15 initial sessions of OT over 3/4 months) |
Outcomes | Primary outcome: behaviour symptoms Secondary outcomes: quality of life, functional performance, apathy, depression, caregivers’ burden, caregivers’ sense of competence, patients’ resource utilisation |
Starting date | January 2018 |
Contact information | Jean‐François Dartigues, jean‐francois.dartigues@u‐bordeaux.fr |
Notes | ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03435705 |
OT: occupational therapy