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Published on: August 30, 2011
Video prompting versus other instruction strategies for persons with Alzheimer's disease
Viviana Perilli1, Giulio E Lancioni, Frans Hoogeveen
1Department of Psychology and Pedagogical and Teaching Sciences, University of Bari, Italy.
Background/Aim:
Two studies assessed the effectiveness of video prompting as a strategy to support persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease in performing daily activities.
Methods:
In study I, video prompting was compared to an existing strategy relying on verbal instructions. In study II, video prompting was compared to another existing strategy relying on static pictorial cues. Video prompting and the other strategies were counterbalanced across tasks and participants and compared within alternating treatments designs.
Results:
Video prompting was effective in all participants. Similarly effective were the other 2 strategies, and only occasional differences between the strategies were reported. Two social validation assessments showed that university psychology students and graduates rated the patients' performance with video prompting more favorably than their performance with the other strategies.
Conclusion:
Video prompting may be considered a valuable alternative to the other strategies to support daily activities in persons with Alzheimer's disease.
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