{"id":5494,"date":"2016-01-25T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:34:16","slug":"article-of-the-month-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"Article of the month: January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website committee selected the article of Clive Ballard et al. as publication of the month.<br \/>\nThis high-impact article describes results of a cluster-randomized factorial controlled trial in 16 U.K nursing homes showing that worsening of neuropsychiatric symptomatology after reduction of antipsychotic medication use in long-term care settings can be mitigated by concomitant delivery of an nonpharmacological intervention aimed at improving resident interactions.<\/p>\n<p>See: <strong>Ballard C, Orrell M, YongZhong S, Moniz-Cook E, Stafford J, Whittaker R, Woods B, Corbett A, Garrod L, Khan Z, Woodward-Carlton B, Wenborn J, Fossey J. Impact of Antipsychotic Review and Nonpharmacological Intervention on Antipsychotic Use, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, and Mortality in People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes: A Factorial Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by the Well-Being and Health for People With Dementia (WHELD) Program. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Nov 20:appiajp201515010130. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 2658540<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1176\/appi.ajp.2015.15010130?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed\" target=\"_blank\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website committee selected the article of Clive Ballard et al. as publication of the month. This high-impact article describes results of a cluster-randomized factorial controlled trial in 16 U.K [&hellip;] ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}