Department of Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Via Quintino Sella 268, 70100 Bari, Italy.
Res Dev Disabil. 2013 Jan;34(1):286-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2012.08.016. Epub 2012 Sep 14.
The present study (a) extended the assessment of an orientation program involving auditory cues (i.e., verbal messages automatically presented from the destinations) with five patients with Alzheimer's disease, (b) compared the effects of this program with those of a program with light cues (i.e., a program in which strobe lights were used instead of the verbal messages) with the same five patients, and (c) conducted a social validation assessment of the two programs with 70 university psychology students employed as social raters. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the program with auditory cues and showed an equally strong impact of the program with light cues with all five patients. The psychology students involved in the social validation assessment provided significantly higher scores for the program involving light cues on a six-item questionnaire. Those scores suggested that this program was perceived as a practically and socially preferable choice. The implications of the findings for daily contexts dealing with patients with Alzheimer's disease are discussed.
本研究（a）扩展了对涉及听觉线索（即自动从目的地呈现的口头信息）的定向程序的评估，涉及五名老年痴呆症患者，（b）将该程序的效果与使用灯光线索（即使用频闪灯代替口头信息的程序）的效果进行了比较，同样是五名患者，（c）用 70 名担任社会评估员的大学心理学学生对两个程序进行了社会验证评估。结果证实了听觉线索程序的有效性，并表明所有五名患者的灯光线索程序同样具有强大的影响。参与社会验证评估的心理学学生在一份六项的问卷上对灯光线索程序的评分显著较高。这些分数表明，该程序被认为是一种在实际和社会上更可取的选择。研究结果对涉及老年痴呆症患者的日常环境具有启示意义。
