Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 868-878Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4401
Keywords
dementia; residential facilities; depression; exercise; randomized controlled trial; frail elderly
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Funding
- Swedish Research Council [K2009-69P-21298-01-4, K2009-69X-21299-01-1, K2009-69P-21298-04-4, K2014-99X-22610-01-6]
- Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare [2012-0775, 2013-1512]
- Vardal Foundation
- King Gustav V and Queen Viktoria's Foundation
- Swedish Dementia Association
- Promobilia Foundation
- Swedish Society of Medicine
- Detlof Research Foundation
- Swedish Alzheimer Foundation
- County Council of Vasterbotten (ALF)
- Umea University Foundation for Medical Research
- Ragnhild and Einar Lundstrom's Memorial Foundation
- European Union
- Regional Development Fund: the Interreg IIIA Mitt-Scandia and the Bothnia-Atlantica Program
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Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a high-intensity functional exercise program on depressive symptoms among older care facility residents with dementia. Methods: Residents (n = 186) with a diagnosis of dementia, age >= 65 years, Mini-Mental State Examination score = 10, and dependence in activities of daily living were included. Participants were randomized to a high-intensity functional exercise program or a non-exercise control activity conducted 45 min every other weekday for 4 months. The 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) were administered by blinded assessors at baseline, 4, and 7 months. Results: No difference between the exercise and control activity was found in GDS or MADRS score at 4 or 7 months. Among participants with GDS scores = 5, reductions in GDS score were observed in the exercise and control groups at 4 months (-1.58, P = 0.001 and -1.54, P = 0.004) and 7 months (-1.25, P = 0.01 and -1.45, P = 0.007). Among participants with MADRS scores >= 7, a reduction in MADRS score was observed at 4 months in the control group (-2.80, P = 0.009) and at 7 months in the exercise and control groups (-3.17, P = 0.003 and -3.34, P = 0.002). Conclusions: A 4-month high-intensity functional exercise program has no superior effect on depressive symptoms relative to a control activity among older people with dementia living in residential care facilities. Exercise and non-exercise group activities may reduce high levels of depressive symptoms.
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