Objectives : This study was to be conducted to identify the occupational therapy meditation for domestic
patients with dementia.
Methods : From January, 2000 to August, 2013, we searched through The National Library of Korea
and KISS the for essays post in doctoral thesis or academic magazine and mainly used vocabularies
such as occupational therapy, occupational meditative therapy and dementia.
Results : In aspect of subjects that had participated in each studies, the study with more than twenty
subjects was only one and the number of subject of all the other studies was less than twenty,
which means level of reasonability was not so high. For research design of each thesis,
randomized trial was one among every research and three was non-RCT. six was non-subject
design and one was case studies. In aspect of internal/external justifiability, ten studies were
in the middle level of in/external justifiability, and in aspect of efficacy of therapy ten out of
eleven studies was confirmed to have gained meaningful effect because it matched hypothesis
of thesis. The activities of daily living, depression and cognitive function had been mentioned
in total five studies. reduced caregiver burden had been mentioned in two studies.
Conclusion : The future study is going to obtain more subjects according to such as result and to do some
work about continuous medical effect through investigation. The more studies about various
medical possibility other than occupational therapy meditation will be required.