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- Title
Exercise Plus Behavioral Management in Patients With Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Authors
Teri, Linda; Gibbons, Laura E.; McCurry, Susan M.; Logsdon, Rebecca G.; Buchner, David M.; Barlow, William E.; Kukull, Walter A.; LaCroix, Andrea Z.; McCormick, Wayne; Larson, Eric B.
- Abstract
Context: Exercise training for patients with Alzheimer disease combined with teaching caregivers how to manage behavioral problems may help decrease the frailty and behavioral impairment that are often prevalent in patients with Alzheimer disease. Objective: To determine whether a home-based exercise program combined with caregiver training in behavioral management techniques would reduce functional dependence and delay institutionalization among patients with Alzheimer disease. Design, Setting, and Patients: Randomized controlled trial of 153 community-dwelling patients meeting National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria for Alzheimer disease, conducted between June 1994 and April 1999. Interventions: Patient-caregiver dyads were randomly assigned to the combined exercise and caregiver training progam, Reducing Disability in Alzheimer Disease (RDAD), or to routine medical care (RMC). The RDAD program was conducted in the patients' home over 3 months. Main Outcome Measures: Physical health and function (36-item Short-Form Health Survey's [SF-36] physical functioning and physical role functioning subscales and Sickness Impact Profile's Mobility subscale), and affective status (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and Cornell Depression Scale for Depression in Dementia). Results: At 3 months, in comparison with the routine care patients, more patients in the RDAD group exercised at least 60 min/wk (odds ratio [OR], 2.82; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.25-6.39; P = .01) and had fewer days of restricted activity (OR, 3.10; 95% CI, 1.08-8.95; P<.001). Patients in the RDAD group also had improved scores for physical role functioning compared with worse scores for patients in the RMC group (mean difference, 19.29; 95% CI, 8.75-29.83; P<.001). Patients in the RDAD group had improved Cornell Depression Scale for Depression in Dementia scores while the patients in the RMC group had worse...
- Subjects
EXERCISE therapy; CAREGIVER education; ALZHEIMER'S patients; ALZHEIMER'S disease; BEHAVIOR; SENILE dementia; HEALTH outcome assessment; ALZHEIMER'S disease research; CLINICAL trials
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 15, p2015
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.15.2015