View clinical trials related to Neuropsychiatric Syndrome.
Filter by:Neuropsychiatric impairments in young adults are common and can involve social withdrawal, and difficulties in receiving support from healthcare and municipal social care services. Collaboration is needed, but knowledge gaps exist concerning effective interventions. Participation in meaningful activities, as a complement to other treatment strategies can be a step towards studies/work. The aim of the trial is to explore the feasibility of a structured nature and animal-based activity on a farm for young adults with neuropsychiatric impairments. The intervention involves participation in nature and animal-assisted group activities, twice a week for 12 weeks. Data consists of interviews with participants prior to and after the intervention, as well as one year later. The one-year follow-up focus is on life situation, changes in everyday life and experiences of the intervention. In addition, interview-based experiences of the ordinary staff and supervisors on the farm are included. Analysis will be carried out with qualitative content analysis, as well as health-economic calculations.
The person-centered, motivational, recovery-, and activity-based intervention model 'Everyday Life Rehabilitation´ (ELR), integrated in sheltered and supported housing facilities for people with severe psychiatric disabilities, has shown significant outcomes in feasibility studies, and thus a RCT is required, for the purpose of establishing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ELR. All municipalities in northern and middle Sweden will be invited. Residents who meet the inclusion criteria, will be invited to participate. Housing-units, with associated residents giving consent, will be randomized to either receive intervention with ELR plus treatment as usual (TAU), or TAU alone for control group. Hence, the present study is a cluster RCT. The control group will, after control-period, be offered ELR. Professionals involved in the ELR intervention group; that is occupational therapists, housing staff and housing managers, will receive an educational package. It is hypothesized that the intervention-group will improve in personal and social recovery as well as quality of life. The primary outcome is recovering quality of life assessed by ReQoL, and secondary outcomes are self-perceived recovery, everyday functioning, and goal-attainment at 6 months, assessed using RAS-DS, and GAS, respectively. ReQoL will be transformed into QALY´s for calculation of cost-effectiveness. The study has an adaptive design, including an internal pilot year one and two, in order to determine required sample sizes before continuing with the full scale RCT.
Co-existing neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), especially those worsening over time, are associated with more rapid cognitive and functional decline and a greater risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Optimal NPS management, meaning effectively managing multiple NPS simultaneously, requires a solid understanding of the shared neural mechanism across NPS. The goal of this proof-of-concept mechanistic intervention study is to validate the causal relationship between a NPS-shared neural circuit the investigators previously discovered and various NPS. The investigators will modify a key region within the NPS-shared neural circuit [i.e. left precentral gyrus (LPG), critical for regulating visual attention] with anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Our central hypothesis is that an activation of LPG and a reorganization of NPS-shared neural circuit will link to improvement in multiple NPS. Using a Stage 0 pilot randomized control trial design the investigators will recruit n = 40 older adults with informant-rated NPS that has worsened in the past 2 years, which is considered the most detrimental type of NPS in MCI. The investigators will assign participants to 4-week active anodal vs. sham LPG online tDCS group. The investigators will assess resting-state and visual attention task-related functional MRI and informant-rated NPS at baseline, and the end of week 4 and week 8, and diffusion MRI at baseline. The two primary aims are to determine the effect of tDCS on NPS-shared neural circuit (Aim 1), as well as the relationship between NPS-shared neural circuit and informant-report NPS (Aim 2). The exploratory aim will be to examine the relationship between NPS and the coherence between structural and functional aspects of the NPS-shared neural circuit. Probing the LPG via anodal tDCS provides a way to experimentally test the causal relationship between our previously discovered NPS-shared neural circuit and informant-rated NPS. The proposed research is highly innovative, while scientifically grounded, for targeting one brain region that may affect multiple NPS. Validating the hypotheses has the potential for future R01 study that directly conducts a Stage 2 trial addressing NPS in MCI, and thus ultimately improves patient's quality of life and reducing caregiving burden.
The overall aim of this study is to explore if a structured drug review will change clinical symptoms and the psychotropic drugs prescription rate in the elderly living in nursing homes (participants of the study). The study will examine how training of nursing home physicians on reviewing prescription lists using the Norwegian general practice criteria - Nursing homes (NorGeP-NH) will influence the participants' clinical symptoms such as cognition, depression, anxiety and their quality of life. Secondary, we will analyse how a structured drug review will influence further psychotropic drug prescribing rates in nursing homes. The hypothesis for this study are: 1. Training of nursing home physicians on doing a systematic drug review will decrease the participants' clinical symptoms and improve their Quality of Life. 2. A systematic drug review will decrease the psychotropic drug prescription rates compared to before the drug review.