Individual goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation to improve everyday functioning for people with early-stage dementia: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (the GREAT trial)

Clare, Linda, Kudlicka, Aleksandra, Oyebode, Jan R., Jones, Roy W., Bayer, Antony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7514-248X, Leroi, Iracema, Kopelman, Michael, James, Ian A., Culverwell, Alison, Pool, Jackie, Brand, Andrew, Henderson, Catherine, Hoare, Zoe, Knapp, Martin and Woods, Bob 2019. Individual goal-oriented cognitive rehabilitation to improve everyday functioning for people with early-stage dementia: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (the GREAT trial). International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 34 (5) , pp. 709-721. 10.1002/gps.5076

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Objectives To determine whether individual goal‐oriented cognitive rehabilitation (CR) improves everyday functioning for people with mild‐to‐moderate dementia. Design and methods Parallel group multi‐centre single‐blind randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing CR added to usual treatment (CR) with usual treatment alone (TAU) for people with an ICD‐10 diagnosis of Alzheimer's, vascular or mixed dementia and mild‐to‐moderate cognitive impairment (MMSE score ≥ 18), and with a family member willing to contribute. Participants allocated to CR received ten weekly sessions over three months and four maintenance sessions over six months. Participants were followed up three and nine months post‐randomisation by blinded researchers. The primary outcome was self‐reported goal attainment at three months. Secondary outcomes at three and nine months included informant‐reported goal attainment, quality of life, mood, self‐efficacy, and cognition, and study partner stress and quality of life. Results We randomised (1:1) 475 people with dementia; 445 (CR=281) were included in the intention to treat analysis at three months, and 426 (CR=208) at nine months. At three months there were statistically‐significant large positive effects for participant‐rated goal attainment (d=0.97, 95% CI 0.75 to 1.19), corroborated by informant ratings (d=1.11, 0.89 to 1.34). These effects were maintained at nine months for both participant (d=0.94, 0.71 to 1.17) and informant ratings (d=0.96, 0.73 to 1.2). The observed gains related to goals directly targeted in the therapy. There were no significant differences in secondary outcomes. Conclusions Cognitive rehabilitation enables people with early‐stage dementia to improve their everyday functioning in relation to individual goals targeted in the therapy.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0885-6230
Funders:	NIHR
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 February 2019
Date of Acceptance:	28 January 2019
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 01:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119406

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