The prevalence of dementia is increasing with the ever-growing population of older adults. Non-pharmacological, music-based interventions, including sensory stimulation, were reported by the Lancet Commission in 2020 to be the first-choice approach for managing the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Low frequency sinusoidal vibration interventions, related to music interventions through their core characteristics, may offer relief for these symptoms. Despite increasing attention on the effectiveness of auditory music interventions and music therapy for managing dementia, this has not included low frequency vibration. This scoping review, following the JBI methodology guidelines, was conducted to investigate participants' responses to both sound and mechanical vibration, the characteristics of the delivered interventions, methodological challenges, and the specifics of the research experiments reported. An extensive search was conducted in BMC, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE, ERIC, MEDLINE (OvidSP), Pedro, ProQuest Central, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science. Current Controlled Trials, Clinical Trials, and Google Scholar were also searched as well as a hand search in relevant journals. Studies on adults with all types of dementia, investigating tactile low frequency sound or mechanical vibration in any context were considered. Data from eight full-length studies (three RCTs, two quasi-experimental, two case reports, and one qualitative) were extracted using the data extraction table developed by the authors and were included in the analysis and critical appraisal. Issues in quality related to, for example, control groups and blinding. Few studies addressed participants' subjective responses to the interventions. Reporting on the intervention characteristics was unclear. It appeared more frequent sessions led to better outcomes and home-based interventions potentially addressing the issue of access and feasibility. Future research should include neuroimaging to measure and confirm the hypothesised mechanism of cerebral coherence. Standardised reporting of intervention characteristics is also needed to ensure replicability of the experiments. Higher quality research is needed to investigate the impact and effect of low frequency vibration for the symptoms of dementia and compare outcomes in meta-syntheses.

Caritas Association Ettlingen Ettlingen Germany

Center of Evidence Based Education and Arts Therapies A JBI Affiliated Group Institute of Special Education Sciences Faculty of Education Palacky University Olomouc Czechia

Faculty of Health Sciences Palacky University Olomouc Czechia

Faculty of Medicine Czech National Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses Masaryk University Brno Czechia

Institute for Applied Social Sciences University of Applied Social Sciences Würzburg Schweinfurt Germany

VIBRAC Skille Lehikoinen Centre for Vibroacoustic Therapy and Research Eino Roiha Foundation Jyväskylä Finland

Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 16;13:1003963. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1003963. PubMed

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