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2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Effect of wearing fingers rings on the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: an exploratory study

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 25350653
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
Research InstitutionOsaka Yukioka College of Health Science

Principal Investigator

Yokoi Teruo  大阪行岡医療大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (00412247)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OKAMURA Hitoshi  広島大学, 大学院医歯薬保健学研究科, 教授 (40311419)
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Keywordsアルツハイマー病 / 認知症 / BPSD / 自尊心 / 指輪
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study was conducted to examine the effects that wear finger rings on elderly females with BPSD. The subjects were seven dementia patients. A single-case experimental design was adopted for the study. Each study subject was asked to put rings on her finger for 7 days. NPI and scenes of BPSD were determined. The majority of nursing care providers assessed that the irritability that was noted during the baseline period disappeared during the ring-wearing intervention period in the 3 patients who displayed an interest in rings. It was commonly seen that the staff told the patients: “you look so beautiful” when they found a patient wearing rings. In subjects with low self-esteem, anger readily arises when they are slighted by others. Self-esteem is low in those women who are aware of their own status of collapsing intellect. It is concluded that the words of conjuration: “you look so beautiful” heightened the self-esteem and alleviated irritability in the study subjects.

Free Research Field

人間医工学

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Published: 2017-05-10  

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