- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05298540
Feasibility and Acceptability of Home-based Computerised Cognitive Training After Cardiac Surgery (FACCT)
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Heart surgery is a common procedure for coronary heart disease (blocked or narrowed coronary arteries) and valve problems (narrowing or hardening of the heart valves). It is known that after surgery some patients experience problems with their 'cognitive health' - this includes aspects like memory problems, concentration, and attention. These cognitive health problems can last for several months and can have a considerable impact on patients, and their family.
Cognitive training (which means exercising the brain) has been shown to improve cognitive health in a number of patient groups including healthy older adults, patients with heart failure, and patients with mild cognitive impairment. The aim of this study is to find out if home-based computerised cognitive training (CCT) improves cognitive health after heart surgery.
Investigators will recruit adult (≥ 18 years) patients undergoing first time elective cardiac surgery, who are willing to engage with an online training programme, and due to the nature of the intervention, potential participants must have access to a computer or tablet and access to the internet.
Before surgery, a brief cognitive assessment will be carried out. Participants will be asked to complete 20 minutes of cognitive training exercises, 5 days per week, starting one week after their operation. A member of the research team will contact the patient once a week to check progress, to provide support, and to help with any technical issues.
After the 8-week CCT (brain training exercises) programme, a follow-up video call will be arranged. During this follow-up participants will complete a second cognitive assessment and a questionnaire to see how acceptable and helpful they found the brain training exercises.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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London, United Kingdom, EC1A 7DN
- Barts Health NHS Trust
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- ≥18 years old undergoing first time elective cardiac surgery
- Willing to engage with an online cognitive training programme
- Access to a computer or table with access to the internet.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unwilling or unable to give written informed consent
- significant psychiatric or medical comorbidities where that condition might impact on cognitive function and affect their ability to participate.
- Inability to understand written and / or verbal English
- Those with motor symptoms that would impede their ability to complete the programme
- Those unwilling or unable to engage in a video call
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Home-based computerised cognitive training
Participants will be asked to complete 40 sessions (20 minutes / day, 5 days / week) of cognitive training over the 8-week intervention period (this will be assessed using automated data reports of user activity generated in collaboration with BrainHQ).
Training will commence one week postoperatively to avoid the effects of sedatives, postoperative pain, sleep deprivation, and patient fatigue, and to improve adherence
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Participants will be registered for individual accounts to an online CCT program created by BrainHQ (Posit Science, San Francisco), that can be administered using their own computer or tablet.
BrainHQ has been associated with improvements in memory, attention, and processing speed.
The program will be customised to target domains thought to be deficient in the postoperative period and will include training in memory, attention, and processing speed.
Specifically, the following six games have been selected: hear, hear (auditory memory and attention), to-do list training (working memory), divided attention (attention), target tracker (attention), double decision (useful field of view and visual processing speed), and eye for detail (visual processing speed and visual working memory).
The exercises are adaptive, adjusting the application difficulty to the participants performance.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Recruitment rate
Time Frame: 6 months
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Number of participants included from eligible patients; satisfactory recruitment defined as enrolment of ≥ 50% of eligible patients.
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6 months
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Study retention
Time Frame: 6 months
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Satisfactory retention rate ≥ 75% of participants completing the 8-week training programme
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6 months
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Recruitment target
Time Frame: 6 months
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The time required to meet the target recruitment of 30 patients
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6 months
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Feasibility of testing procedures
Time Frame: 6 months
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% of participants where outcome testing was completed
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6 months
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Feasibility of data collection methods
Time Frame: 6 months
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% of participants with complete data sets
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6 months
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Adherence to the intervention: number of sessions
Time Frame: 6 months
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Compliance to measure the feasibility of the study; the number of sessions completed out of the 40 planned sessions during the 8-week intervention
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6 months
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Adherence to the intervention: total time
Time Frame: 6 months
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Compliance to measure the feasibility of the study; the total time completed out of the planned 800 minutes during the 8-week intervention
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6 months
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Acceptability, by participant report
Time Frame: measured after the 8 week intervention (ie 8-10 weeks)
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The theoretical framework of acceptability (TFA) questionnaire has been adapted to this study, in collaboration with one of the TFA development team, to evaluate participants' perceptions of the intervention.
The questionnaire was designed to inductively evaluate the retrospective acceptability of the intervention.
The seven-item questionnaire will provide a five-point Likert scale reporting method in relation to their agreement statements, where the minimum value is 5 and maximum value is 35, with a higher score indicating higher acceptability.
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measured after the 8 week intervention (ie 8-10 weeks)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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to estimate measures of precision about the mean and variance of cognitive outcome to inform sample size calculations for a subsequent efficacy study.
Time Frame: 6 months
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Cognitive function will be measured using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).
The MoCA is a brief, 30-question test of global cognition, designed to detect mild cognitive impairment with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity.
The MoCA takes approximately 10 minutes to administer, and will be measured upon enrolment and after the 8-week intervention.
A score of 26 (out of 30) or higher is considered normal.
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6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Tracey Bowden, MSc, Barts & The London NHS Trust
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 309731
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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