NCT07465783Recruiting
Effects of Musical Intervention by a Therapist (IMT) on Falling Asleep and Behavioral Regulation in a Secure Care Unit (SCU)
Effects of Musical Intervention by a Therapist (IMT) on Falling Asleep and Behavioral Regulation in a Secure Care Unit (SCU) Pilot Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a prospective, multicenter study designed to evaluate the benefits of an evening music-based intervention on sundowning syndrome in patients with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders in a Protect lLife Unit setting.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 48 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 21 Jan 2026
- Start date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Primary completion date
- Jul 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT07465783
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 48
- From 2 Feb 2026 to the primary completion date, Jul 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Participation in a study on a drug/medical device/treatment technique that may affect sleep or behavior.
Other
- Refusal to participate
- Highly sedated patients,
- Patients with acute medical instability,
- Patients with productive delusions,
- Patients who have been in the unit for less than 1 month
Who the study is looking for
- Signature of consent by the patient's legal guardian obtained after providing information
- Patients aged 60 and over who meet the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, including mainly: Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, vascular encephalopathy, alcoholic dementia, primary progressive aphasia syndrome, posterior cortical atrophy syndrome (France Alzheimer, 2024).
- Patient living in a secure care unit
- If taking psychotropic drugs, they must have been stable for 3 months
- If taking level 2 or 3 painkillers, they must have been stable for 1 month
Age in the registry: 60 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-etienne hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint-Etienne | France | Recruiting |
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