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Parallel Sessions
      HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2017


             PS8.4     Technology Advancement and Innovation                10:45  Room 423 & Room 424

            “The newHABIT Programme” – a New and Effective Multi-disciplinary Programme for Psychogeriatric Day
            Patient with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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            Kwok ICY , Wong L , Wu AYK , Lui SF , Kong SWC , Lo SY , Leung PKM , Wong FPY , Chan WWW , Fung EML , Ng GMC ,
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            1 Department of Clinical Psychology,  Department of Psychiatry, Psychogeriatric Day Hospital,  Physiotherapy Department,
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            Introduction
            Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional state between normal cognitive decline in old age and dementia. “The
            newHABIT Programme” is a 12-week of 1.5 hour weekly structured multi-disciplinary programme tailored to older adults with
            MCI or early stage of dementia, and their respective caregivers. Five intervention groups conducted by psychogeriatric team,
            including psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, psychiatric nurse, physiotherapist, dietitian, occupational therapist, and medical
            social worker, were held in Psychogeriatric Day Hospital (PGDH) between 2014 and 2016.
            Objective
            To examine the effectiveness of “the newHABIT Programme” on changing memory-related behaviours, emotions and
            perceptions amongst psychogeriatric day-patients with MCI.
            Methodology
            43 elderly patients with MCI or early stage of dementia and 20 caregivers were recruited in five intervention programmes.
            Patients  were  required  to  complete  the  Patient  Health  Questionnaire  (PHQ-9),  Multifactorial  Metamemory  Questionnaire
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            (MMQ; Contentment Subscale, Ability Subscale and Strategy Subscale) at three time spots (during intake, the 5  and the
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            12  sessions), while caregivers were asked to complete the Chinese Version of the Modified Caregivers Strain Index during
            session 10.
            Results
            Data of 43 patients were analysed. 72.1% of patients were female. 53.5% of them aged 70 or above and 72% of them with
            education level of secondary school or above. Satisfaction with memory abilities significantly increased from 40.8% to 57.5%
            (p<0.001) while frequency of adopting memory strategies improved from 38.8% to 52.2% (p<0.001) between intake and the
            12  session. Everyday memory functioning significantly improved from 54.8% to 61.4% (p=0.004), which implies patients
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            made less memory mistakes. Depression score was significantly reduced from 8.1 to 4.6 after the 12  sessions (p<0.001).
            Low caregiver strain was indicated amongst caregivers during group sessions. All patients and caregivers were satisfied with
            the programme.
            Conclusions
            “The newHABIT programme” demonstrated treatment efficacy in enhancing memory-related behavioural, emotional and
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            perceptual changes among psychogeriatric day-patients.

































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