The effect of a music-based caregiving intervention on pain intensity in nursing home patients with dementia: a cluster-randomized controlled study.

Treatment of chronic pain in patients with dementia is challenging because they have reduced ability to report pain and are particularly vulnerable to side effects of analgesics. Different types of music-based therapy have been recommended and are used as an alternative to analgesics, but the evidence is lacking. Therefore, we performed a cluster-randomized controlled study (RCT) to reduce pain intensity using music-based caregiving (MBC) over 8 weeks in nursing home patients with dementia and chronic pain.

[Cultural approaches to treatment and public health work].

Background: Improvement of health status due to physical activity is well documented. Research on health effects of other cultural measures is more scarce. During recent years, considerable work in these fields has been presented in the Nordic countries and there is a good basis for further research.

[What do we know about participation in cultural activities and health?].

Background: Knowledge of the association between health status and lifestyle factors, such as food habits, smoking and physical activity, is abundant. Other lifestyle factors, such as participation in cultural activities, have attained less attention.

Material And Methods: The article is based on studies of the literature.