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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2020 Jan-Dec:35:1533317519859202.
doi: 10.1177/1533317519859202. Epub 2019 Jul 9.

Immediate Benefit of Art on Pain and Well-Being in Community-Dwelling Patients with Mild Alzheimer's

Elodie Pongan  1   2   3 , Floriane Delphin-Combe  2   3 , Pierre Krolak-Salmon  2   3   4 , Yohana Leveque  4   5 , Barbara Tillmann  4   5 , Romain Bachelet  2   3 , Jean-Claude Getenet  1 , Nicolas Auguste  6 , Béatrice Trombert  7   8 , Jean-Michel Dorey  9 , Bernard Laurent  1 , Isabelle Rouch  1   2   3
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Immediate Benefit of Art on Pain and Well-Being in Community-Dwelling Patients with Mild Alzheimer's

Elodie Pongan et al. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2020 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

Objective: The present report aims to evaluate whether singing intervention can bring an immediate benefit that is greater than the one provided by painting intervention on pain and well-being.

Methods: Fifty-nine mild patients with Alzheimer disease were randomized to a 12-week singing (n = 31) or painting group (n = 28). In the present analysis, the immediate evolution of pain and well-being was compared across sessions between the 2 groups using mixed-effects models.

Results: We observed a significant improvement in well-being for both singing and painting groups immediately after sessions, compared to the assessment before the sessions. We did not observe this improvement across the sessions for pain intensity measurement.

Discussion: Our results revealed that both painting and singing interventions provide an immediate benefit on the patients' well-being.

Keywords: Alzheimer disease; music; pain; quality of life; well-being.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
EVIBE score by group and time. EVIBE: The Scale of instantaneous well-being with range 0 to 5, from feeling bad (0) to feeling very well (5) *P < .05, **P < .01, ***P < .0001. EVIBE indicates Evaluation Instantanée du Bien-Etre; PI, painting intervention; SI, singing intervention; Sn, number of session.
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