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Does music make the ward go round?
— the role of staff attitudes and burnout in the use of music for people with dementia | | Author(s) | Emiliia Papageorgiou |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 121, October 2012 |
| Pages | pp 44-48 |
| Source | www.bps.org.uk |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Music ; Attitude ; Stress ; Personnel ; Social surveys ; Lothians. |
| Annotation | While there is a large evidence base on the effects of music on people with dementia, conclusions about the effectiveness of the music on people with dementia and their caregivers. This study investigates what formal dementia caregivers think about the use of music for people with dementia. It also considers whether attitudes to dementia and staff burnout predict positive attitudes toward the use of music. The author distributed three questionnaires to 323 staff across 16 NHS wards across Lothian that accommodate people with dementia: the Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (ADQ); the Mastach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS); and the Staff Attitudes to Music - Dementia version (SAM-D). She presents preliminary results based on a just under 32% response rate, and finds that these caregivers have positive attitudes to music, but that more than half never or rarely attend music concerts. One surprising finding was that formal dementia caregiver burnout rates were not directly correlated to staff attitudes to music. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121116203 A |
| Classmark | EA: HH: DP: QNH: QM: 3F: 9S |
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