• Department of Child Health, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P.R.China;
XU Yong, Email: xuyongchildhealth@163.com
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Objectives To systematically review the efficacy of seven types of cognitive interventions for older adults with mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease (AD).Methods We searched The Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMbase, CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP and CBM databases to collect randomized controlled trials on cognitive interventions for mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from inception to January 2018. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. STATA 14.0 software was then used to perform a meta-analysis.Results A total of 49 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were included. The results of network meta-analysis revealed that each cognitive intervention had significantly improved the cognitive ability of AD patients. Specifically, nursing intervention (NI) (MD=3.01, 95%CI 1.70 to 4.50, P<0.005) was the most effective enhancer of cognitive ability, followed by music therapy (MT) (MD=2.60, 95%CI 0.96 to 4.30, P<0.001), physical exercise (PE) (MD=2.4, 95%CI 1.0 to 3.9, P<0.001), cognitive rehabilitation (CR) (MD=2.3, 95% CI 0.92 to 3.7, P=0.013), cognitive simulation (CS) (MD=1.7, 95%CI 1.2 to 2.3, P=0.037), computerized cognitive training (CCT) (MD=1.6, 95%CI 0.42 to 2.8, P<0.001), and pharmacological therapies (PT) (MD=1.5, 95%CI 0.24 to 2.8, P=0.041).Conclusions The seven types of cognitive interventions are helpful in improving the cognitive ability of Alzheimer's patients, and nursing intervention is the most effective cognitive intervention. Moreover, non-pharmacological therapies may be better than pharmacological therapies.

Citation: LIANG Jinghong, XU Yong, JIA Ruixia, WANG Yingquan. Comparison of multiple cognitive interventions for dementia-based on Bayesian network meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(1): 18-27. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201710116 Copy

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