title: Effectiveness of multisensory stimulation in managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults with major neurocognitive disorder: a systematic review protocol.
abstract: This review aims to identify and synthesize the effectiveness of multisensory stimulation in managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults with major neurocognitive disorder.More specifically, this review focuses on the following questions: what are the effects of multisensory stimulation in managing neuropsychiatric symptoms such as delusion, hallucination, agitation, aggression, mood liability, anxiety, apathy, motor disturbances, night-time behavior and eating disorders in elderly patients with major neurocognitive disorder?
authors.affiliation: 1Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health: Catholic University of Portugal, The Portugal Centre for Evidence Based Practice: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute 2Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, Nursing School of Coimbra, The Portugal Centre for Evidence Based Practice: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cardoso
authors.forename: João
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Apóstolo
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D003702:Delusions; D003704:Dementia; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic