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Service users' involvement in the development of a maintenance cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) programme
— a comparison of the views of people with dementia, staff and family carers | | Author(s) | Elisa Aguirre, Aimee Spector, Amy Streater |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 10, no 4, November 2011 |
| Pages | pp 459-473 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Group work ; Attitude ; Clinical surveys. |
| Annotation | This study describes the process of developing a maintenance cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) programme manual following the UK Medical Research Council guidelines. It used inductive thematic analysis to examine user perceptions. Three separate focus groups were carried out with people with dementia, three with staff, and three with family carers. The main findings clearly support the recent draft NICE guidelines on dementia (NICE-SCIE, 2006) which state that all people with mild/moderate dementia should be given the opportunity to participate in a structured cognitive stimulation programme. People with dementia valued the opportunity to take part in a mental stimulating group programme highly and considered it vital in keeping them healthy and active. Most family carers and staff were very positive but expressed concerns about the effectiveness of this type of programme and gave real life examples where the idea of `use it or lose it' did not apply. Data gathered from the focus groups is to be used in the preparation of a new version of the maintenance CST draft manual and it is intended that this will be evaluated in a large randomised controlled trial (RCT). (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120523001 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: LP: LO: IGG: DP: 3G |
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