The potential of time-assistive products to improve daily time management in persons with dementia: a randomised controlled trial
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Abstract
Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of time-assistive products in supporting persons with mild to moderate dementia to achieve their time-related activity goals given their time processing ability.Materials and methods A multicentre single-blinded randomised controlled intervention study. A total of 73 persons with mild to moderate dementia aged ≥60 years were recruited through memory clinics across Sweden, of which 57 completed the three-month follow-up (intervention group n = 26, waiting list control group n = 31). The intervention group received individually prescribed time-assistive products. The primary outcome measure was the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). Comparative analyses were done of the differences in COPM ratings at baseline and after three months within and between groups. KaTid-Senior was used to measure time processing ability.Results After three months, COPM ratings, adjusted for time processing ability, had significantly improved in the intervention group regarding satisfaction with performance (p = .028, ηp2 = 0.09) but not for performance (p = .053, ηp2 = 0.07). The change from the ratings at baseline to the ratings at 3 months was clinically significant in the intervention group as their improvement exceeded 2 points on a 10-point scale both for performance (mean 2.8, CI 1.8–3.7) and satisfaction with performance (mean 3.4, CI 2.3–4.6).Conclusion Prescription of time-assistive products can support persons with mild to moderate dementia in their daily time management in relation to individual time-related goals. However, given the weak evidence base, further research is needed on the effectiveness of time-based assistive products for persons with dementia.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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