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An intervention to improve sleep for people living with dementia: Reflections on the development and co-production of DREAMS:START (Dementia RElAted Manual for Sleep: STrAtegies for RelaTives)

Rapaport, Penny, Webster, Lucy, Horsley, Rossana, Kyle, Simon D., Kinnunen, Kirsi M., Hallam, Brendan, Pickett, James, Cooper, Claudia, Espie, Colin A., Livingston, Gill and others. (2018) An intervention to improve sleep for people living with dementia: Reflections on the development and co-production of DREAMS:START (Dementia RElAted Manual for Sleep: STrAtegies for RelaTives). Dementia, 17 (8). pp. 976-989. ISSN 1471-3012. (doi:10.1177/1471301218789559) (KAR id:97735)

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Abstract

Many people living with dementia experience sleep disturbances yet there are currently no known effective, safe and acceptable treatments. Working with those affected by dementia to co-produce interventions is increasingly promoted to ensure that approaches are fit for purpose and meet the specific needs of target groups. Our aim here is to outline and reflect upon the co-production of Dementia RElAted Manual for Sleep; STrAtegies for RelaTives (DREAMS:START), an intervention to improve sleep for people living with dementia. Our co-production team brought together experts in the development and testing of manualised interventions in dementia care and cognitive behavioural interventions for sleep disorders, with Alzheimer’s Society research network volunteers (ASRNVs) whose lives had been affected by dementia. Here we present the process of intervention development. We worked with (ASRNVs) at each stage of the process bringing together ‘experts by training’ and ‘experts by experience’. (ASRNVs)shared their experiences of sleep disturbances in dementia and how they had managed these difficulties, as well as suggestions for how to overcome barriers to putting the intervention into practice; making (DREAMS:START) more accessible and usable for those in need. In this paper we discuss both the benefits and challenges to this process and what we can learn for future work. Collaborating with ‘experts by experience’ caring for a relative with sleep difficulties helped us to develop a complex intervention in an accessible and engaging way which we have tested and found to be feasible and acceptable in a randomised controlled trial.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/1471301218789559
Subjects: R Medicine
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Funders: Sage (United Kingdom) (https://ror.org/01xhv6h58)
Depositing User: George Austin-Coskry
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2022 16:06 UTC
Last Modified: 11 Jan 2024 01:48 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/97735 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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