Christakou Anna, Bouzineki Christina, Pavlou Marousa, Stranjalis George, Sakellari Vasiliki
Physiotherapy Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Physiotherapy Department, University of Peloponnese Sparti, Greece.
J Frailty Sarcopenia Falls. 2023 Mar 1;8(1):60-65. doi: 10.22540/JFSF-08-060. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Dementia involves the loss of cognitive abilities and represents a decline from the prior level of function which impairs functional abilities in day-to-day life. No previous experimental research has been done to assess mental imagery (MI) effectiveness in the motor, cognitive and emotional status of individuals with early-stage dementia. One hundred and forty older individuals with early-stage dementia from the Day Care Centre of the Alzheimer Association in Athens will take part in this study. The sample will be randomly divided into three groups: MI and physical exercise (intervention group), only physical exercise (1 control group), and neither MI nor physical exercise (2 control group). Assessment will be obtained one week prior to the program, in the middle of the program (6 week of the intervention program) and after the end of the program (13 week of the intervention program). Participants of the intervention group will perform a 30-minute MI programme after the end of every physiotherapy session. Reliable and valid instruments will be used to assess the primary outcomes, i.e., balance and functional status as well as the secondary outcomes i.e., cognitive ability, emotional state and quality of life. The two-way Mixed ANOVA with factors 'intervention' (between groups) and 'time' (within group) will be used as a statistical analysis. Approvals of clinical trial protocol: a) UNIWA Research Committee study protocol approval: 93292 - 26/10/2021. b) ClinicalTrials.gov: ID NCT05232526.
痴呆症涉及认知能力的丧失，代表着功能水平较之前有所下降，这会损害日常生活中的功能能力。此前尚未有实验研究评估心理意象（MI）对早期痴呆症患者运动、认知和情绪状态的有效性。来自雅典阿尔茨海默病协会日托中心的140名早期痴呆症老年个体将参与这项研究。样本将被随机分为三组：心理意象与体育锻炼组（干预组）、仅体育锻炼组（对照组1）和既无心理意象也无体育锻炼组（对照组2）。评估将在项目开始前一周、项目进行中（干预项目的第6周）和项目结束后（干预项目的第13周）进行。干预组的参与者将在每次物理治疗课程结束后进行30分钟的心理意象训练。将使用可靠且有效的工具来评估主要结果，即平衡和功能状态，以及次要结果，即认知能力、情绪状态和生活质量。将采用具有“干预”（组间）和“时间”（组内）因素的双向混合方差分析作为统计分析方法。临床试验方案批准情况如下：a）西阿提卡大学研究委员会研究方案批准：93292 - 2021年10月26日。b）ClinicalTrials.gov：标识符NCT05232526。
