MATCH - A proof-of-concept study trialling a music health technology for people living with dementia
Tracks
Federation Ballroom / Plenary
Dementia
Home Care
Informal caregivers
Innovation
Technology
| Wednesday, November 13, 2024 |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM |
Speaker
Prof Felicity Baker
Researcher, Music Therapy
The University Of Melbourne
MATCH - A proof-of-concept study trialling a music health technology for people living with dementia
Abstract
A prototype of a music health technology to reduce dementia symptoms and better manage care was developed and pilot tested with family caregivers of people with dementia.
Family caregivers (n=16) were provided with a prototype of a bespoke mobile application which contained training modules for targeted music use. After caregivers completed the training modules, they used the music strategies >2 x per week over 8 weeks. Pre-post measures on the neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory and Acceptability of the mobile app and training were captured to detect change in symptoms and application feasibility.
Significant pre-post changes in NPI-Q symptom severity (-4.23 [4.9], 95% CI -7.2 to -1.3, p=0.009) and symptom distress (-5.69 [5.8], 95% CI -9.2 to -2.2, p=0.004) were found, but not on the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (-4.38 [11.6], 95% CI -9.9 to 1.34, p=0.109). Subscales of the NPI-Q found significant changes to mood symptoms (-1.23 [1.9], 95% CI -2.36 to -0.01, p=0.036) and frontal symptoms (-1.45 [23], 95% CI -2.87 to -0.05, p=0.043), but not agitation/aggression (-1.1 (1.9], 95% CI -2.21 to 0.07, p=0.062). 85% if carers were satisfied with the MATCH app features and 92% were satisfied with the music training.
There is preliminary evidence that music interventions implemented by trained family caregivers is effective in dementia care.
Thompson, Z et al., Content development and validation of a mobile application designed to train family carers in the use of music to support care of people living with dementia.(2023). Frontiers in Medicine: Geriatric Medicine. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1185818
Family caregivers (n=16) were provided with a prototype of a bespoke mobile application which contained training modules for targeted music use. After caregivers completed the training modules, they used the music strategies >2 x per week over 8 weeks. Pre-post measures on the neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory and Acceptability of the mobile app and training were captured to detect change in symptoms and application feasibility.
Significant pre-post changes in NPI-Q symptom severity (-4.23 [4.9], 95% CI -7.2 to -1.3, p=0.009) and symptom distress (-5.69 [5.8], 95% CI -9.2 to -2.2, p=0.004) were found, but not on the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (-4.38 [11.6], 95% CI -9.9 to 1.34, p=0.109). Subscales of the NPI-Q found significant changes to mood symptoms (-1.23 [1.9], 95% CI -2.36 to -0.01, p=0.036) and frontal symptoms (-1.45 [23], 95% CI -2.87 to -0.05, p=0.043), but not agitation/aggression (-1.1 (1.9], 95% CI -2.21 to 0.07, p=0.062). 85% if carers were satisfied with the MATCH app features and 92% were satisfied with the music training.
There is preliminary evidence that music interventions implemented by trained family caregivers is effective in dementia care.
Thompson, Z et al., Content development and validation of a mobile application designed to train family carers in the use of music to support care of people living with dementia.(2023). Frontiers in Medicine: Geriatric Medicine. DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1185818
Biography
Professor Felicity Baker is Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Director, International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit and former Australia Research Council Future Fellow (2011-2015).
Felicity has attracted more than $18 million in competitive research funding including Lead Investigator on a Google.org AI innovation grant, 3 National Health and Medical Research Council grants, (NHMRC), an Australia Research Council Discovery Grant and a Medical Research Future Fund. She is International Lead Investigator of the HOMESIDE RCT involving research teams in Australia, UK, Norway, Poland and Germany and Lead Investigator on the project Music Attuned Technology Care eHealth (MATCH) involving interdisciplinary teams from University of Melbourne in the Faculties 1) Fine Art and Music, 2) Engineering and IT, 3) School of Medicine, 4) School of Population & Global Health.
Disciplines include allied health, psychiatry, software and hardware engineering, human computer interaction, health economics, and biostatistics.
She is currently Associate Editor, Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity was National President of The Australian Music Therapy Association (2010-2014), the national peak body for the discipline, and former editor of The Australian Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity has received a number of awards including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation Award (2009), an American Music Therapy Association Research Award (2015), the World Federation of Music Therapy Research Award (2017) and an ADC Australian Leadership Award (2011). Felicity has published widely with over 150 publications (see google scholar).
Session Chair
Joanna Sun
Lecturer
University of Tasmania
