Music Matters, but so Does the Outcome Measure: A Randomized Controlled Trial for an Individualized Music Intervention for People Living with Dementia.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate differential effects of an individualized music listening intervention for people living with dementia in institutional care.

Methods: Data from 118 people living with dementia, with a mean age of 84.05 years ( = 7.

Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase as stress markers to evaluate an individualized music intervention for people with dementia: feasibility and pilot analyses.

Objectives: We investigated salivary biomarkers of stress, more specifically, cortisol and alpha-amylase, to evaluate effects of individualized music listening (IML) in people with dementia.

Method: Participants were N = 64 nursing home residents with dementia (mean = 83.53 ± 7.

Telephone-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: Family caregivers of persons with dementia (PwD) experience high levels of distress. We used a randomized-controlled trial to investigate the effects of telephone-based acceptance and commitment therapy (tbACT) for family caregivers.

Methods: Caregivers were randomly allocated to an intervention group (tbACT,  = 41) or an untreated control group (CG,  = 40).

Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis.

: Although therapists are encouraged to balance emotionally involving work on the patient's problems with need satisfaction in therapy sessions, effects of this balance have rarely been studied empirically. Hence, we examined congruence effects between problem-related affective and need-satisfying experiences in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). : 165 distressed family caregivers rated problem-related affective experiences, need-satisfying experiences comprising self-esteem, positive interpersonal, and control experiences, as well as coping experiences after 12 CBT sessions.

How do care-related beliefs contribute to depression and anxiety in family caregivers of people with dementia? Testing a cognitive vulnerability-stress model.

Objectives: Care-related beliefs are considered risk factors for decreased mental health in family caregivers of people with dementia. However, their exact role in the caregiver stress process remains unclear. Hence, we tested a cognitive vulnerability-stress model of depression and anxiety in family caregivers of people with dementia.

Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout.

Objective: Research suggests that some therapists achieve better outcomes than others. However, an overlooked area of study is how institution differences impact patient outcomes independent of therapist variance. This study aimed to examine the role of institution and therapist differences in adult outpatient psychotherapy.

Enhancing the acceptance of smart sensing in psychotherapy patients: findings from a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Smart sensing has the potential to make psychotherapeutic treatments more effective. It involves the passive analysis and collection of data generated by digital devices. However, acceptance of smart sensing among psychotherapy patients remains unclear.

Study protocol: randomized controlled trial of an individualized music intervention for people with dementia in the home care setting.

Background: Studies suggest that individualized music listening is an effective, non-pharmacological intervention for improving the quality of life of people with dementia in the institutional care setting. Noting that most people with dementia live at home, we conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of an app-based individualized music listening intervention for people with dementia in the home care setting. The intervention is delivered by family caregivers.

Sounds of Difference: A Typology of Reactions of People With Dementia to Individualized Music in the Presence of a Monitoring Person.

Background And Objectives: Despite promising effects of individualized music listening (IML) for people with dementia, the individualized nature and heterogeneity of reactions to IML remain underexplored. We aimed to develop an empirically derived typology of directly observed reactions of people with dementia to IML and propose recommendations for tailoring the intervention to the respective types.

Research Design And Methods: An ideal-type analysis was conducted on 108 video recordings of 45 people with mainly severe dementia (78% female, mean age of 83.

Between- and within-person effects of affective experiences on coping in CBT: Direct effects and interplay with therapeutic alliance and resource activation.

Objective: The role of affective experiences (AE) in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has rarely been investigated. We examined between- and within-person effects of AE on coping in CBT for family caregivers and interactions with therapeutic alliance and resource activation.

Methods: 67 family caregivers rated AE, therapeutic alliance, resource activation, and coping after each of 12 sessions of telephone-based CBT.

Face-to-face versus telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for family caregivers of people with dementia.

Objective: The objective was to directly compare the effects and acceptability of telephone-based (TEL-CBT) with face-to-face cognitive-behavioral therapy (F2F-CBT) for family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD).

Method: Caregivers for whom F2F participation was possible were allocated to F2F-CBT (n = 49). The other participants were randomized to TEL-CBT (n = 139) or CG (n = 134).

Effects of general change mechanisms on outcome in telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for distressed family caregivers.

Background: The study investigated the influence of general change mechanisms (GCMs) on outcome in telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for family caregivers.

Methods: In a stepped-care intervention approach, highly distressed family caregivers received telephone-based CBT after completing a care counseling intervention. Sixty-six therapist-caregiver dyads rated emotional bond, agreement on collaboration, problem actuation, resource activation, clarification of meaning, and mastery after each of 12 therapy sessions.

Immediate effects of individualized music listening on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: Evidence suggests that individualized music listening (IML) can effectively reduce the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). So far, however, studies have been primarily based on questionnaire measures of BPSD completed by proxy. We therefore investigate effects of IML on BPSD based on systematic observation.

The Caregiver Thoughts Scale: An Instrument to Assess Functional and Dysfunctional Thoughts about Caregiving.

Objectives: Caregivers' care-related thoughts critically effect their well-being. Currently, there is a lack of validated measures to systematically assess caregivers' functional and dysfunctional thoughts. We therefore aimed to develop a measure of caregivers' thoughts that assesses not only their dysfunctional but also their functional thoughts in multiple domains.

Pragmatic Effectiveness of Face-to-Face Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia.

Objectives: The objective was to investigate the pragmatic effectiveness of face-to-face cognitive-behavioral therapy (F2F-CBT) for family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD) implemented in a routine care setting relative to usual care in a quasi-experimental study.

Methods: Participants indicating that attendance of F2F-CBT was possible were assigned to F2F-CBT ( = 49). F2F-CBT consisted of 12 sessions over 6 months.

[Burden experienced by caregiving relatives during the corona pandemic].

Background: Family caregivers are faced with a variety of challenges and burdens. Recent online studies showed that these burdens have increased even more during the corona pandemic. Here we conducted a low-threshold written survey to assess psychological distress in highly burdened family caregivers during the corona pandemic in Germany.

Effects of nursing home placement on the mental health trajectories of family caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the Tele.TAnDem intervention study.

Objectives: The objective was to compare mental health trajectories between family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD) who institutionalize the care recipient (nursing home caregivers [NHC]) and caregivers who continue to provide care at home (at-home caregivers [AHC]) as well as investigate effects of a telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (TEL-CBT) intervention on these trajectories.

Methods: Using linear growth models, we compared the trajectories of depressive symptoms, caregiver grief, anxiety, and quality of life (QoL) over one year (baseline - T0, 6 months - T1, and 12 months - T2) between 28 NHC and 163 AHC who had been randomized to receive 12 sessions of TEL-CBT ( = 99) or to usual care ( = 92).

Results: NHC reported significantly higher depression, anxiety, and caregiver grief at T0 and showed significant reductions in depression and anxiety over time compared to AHC.

Clients' and therapists' experiences of five general change mechanisms during an Internet-based cognitive behavioral intervention for family caregivers.

Objectives: Despite its efficacy, little is known about what makes Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) effective. We, therefore, analyze participants' and therapists' experiences of Grawe's five general change mechanisms (alliance, resource activation, clarification, problem actuation, mastery) during an iCBT intervention for family dementia caregivers, and how their experiences were related to treatment outcomes.

Method: Participants (N = 30) exchanged eight weekly messages with a therapist via an Internet platform.

Does age matter? Initial treatment goals of older adults with major depression in outpatient cognitive behavioural therapy.

Background: Personal treatment goals (PTG) are important means to tailor psychotherapy to the needs of the patient, leading to increased engagement and greater improvement in relevant outcomes. According to lifespan developmental research, motivational goals in old age differ from goals of younger people, with management of losses rather than growth becoming more prevalent. However, this study is the first to systematically investigate age-specific differences in PTGs.

Long-term effects of telephone-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia: Findings at 3-year follow-up.

Introduction: Long-term outcomes are of particular importance in evaluating interventions for family caregivers of people with dementia (PwD). So far, evidence for long-term effects (>6 months postintervention) is limited to four interventions.

Objective: We examined the long-term effects of Tele.

Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the health-beneficial effects of music in people living with dementia: A systematic review of the literature.

Background: Music has been used as agent in medicine for decades. The applications of music in health span from music therapy to music listening interventions to mere music listening. Music may reduce stress and improve health in people living with dementia (PwD), but the exact underpinnings of these effects are unclear.

Relieving distressed caregivers (ReDiCare study): study protocol of a randomized pragmatic trial.

Background: Providing care for someone with a disease or chronic condition can have a negative psychological, physical, social, and economic impact upon informal caregivers. Despite the socio-economic relevance and more than three decades of caregiver intervention research only very few translational efforts of successful interventions are reported. Still less of these interventions have been implemented into routine services.

Unmittelbare Reaktionen von Menschen mit Demenz auf individualisierte Musik - Analyse von Verhaltensbeobachtungen im Pflegeheim .

Unlabelled: Immediate reactions of people with dementia to individualized music - Analysis of behavioral observations in a nursing home Background: Due to the increasing prevalence of dementia, there is an urgent need for effective non-pharmacological interventions to improve the quality of life of people with dementia (PwD) and to relieve their carers. Studies show evidence for the benefits of individualized music. However, the immediate reactions to individualized music have not yet been adequately investigated.

[Evaluation of the Factor Structure of a German Questionnaire Version of the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease Scale].

The present study examined the factor structure of a German questionnaire version of the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease Scale (BEHAVE-AD), which originally assesses behavioral disturbances in people with dementia independent from cognitive symptoms in a clinical interview with a caregiver. The 7-factor structure of the interview version of the BEHAVE-AD (i. e.