- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05860127
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Dementia: A Two-Armed Pragmatic Trial
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is an evidence-based non-pharmacological group therapy shown to benefit people with mild to moderate dementia. Despite increasing availability of CST worldwide, access remains limited in the United States. This pilot pragmatic trial will embed CST referral into the standard care protocol of health care settings that serve people living with dementia in the state of Connecticut, and evaluate online delivery of CST known as virtual CST (V-CST), and assess the acceptability of V-CST to people living with dementia.
The study design is a two-armed randomized embedded pragmatic clinical trial (ePCT). The trial aims to determine if cognitive decline is experienced less commonly among V-CST participants than control group members based on three widely used measures of cognition, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), St. Louis University Memory Screen (SLUMS), and Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE).
The study population will be persons with mild to moderate dementia identified by clinicians in standard care. From this population, subject participants will be randomized to intervention and control groups. Patients randomly assigned to the intervention group will be referred by their clinical providers to participate in V-CST, and those who accept the referral will participate in the intervention.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Michael Lepore, PhD
- Phone Number: 410-706-3794
- Email: mlepore@umaryland.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Deanna Myer
- Email: dmyer@umaryland.edu
Study Locations
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Connecticut
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Farmington, Connecticut, United States, 06030
- UConn Center on Aging
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06536
- Yale Memory Clinic
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Mild to Moderate Dementia
- MoCA score of 10 to 26 OR SLUMS score of 10 to 26 OR MMSE score between 13 and 24 recorded as present < 24 months before the record review
- English-speaking
- Visit scheduled to include cognitive screening 6 to 12 months after record review.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Auditory or visual impairment, combative behaviors, or other clinician-assessed condition that would interfere with group treatment
- No access to online meeting platform
- Patient has specified to HCS not to engage patient in research or to use patient data in research
- Patient has previously participated in V-CST
- Physician determines a caregiver is needed to support V-CST participation, but no caregiver available to assist with technology.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Referral for Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
This group will receive a referral from their physician for CST treatment
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Physician will review participant eligibility for CST treatment and offer referral based on clinical judgement
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Placebo Comparator: Standard of Care
This group will receive standard of care and no CST referral.
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Participants will not receive referral from a physician.
They will continue with standard of care at their site.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Cognitive decline measured by an increase in Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score from baseline to follow-up
Time Frame: 6 months
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Clinically meaningful cognitive decline will be less common in intervention group than the control group.
Clinically meaningful changes will be assessed using one of the following cognitive assessment tools: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam, or the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).
A 'crosswalk' will be used to convert all cognitive assessment measures to a MoCA score.
All participants will start with a baseline MoCA score of 10 to 26 which indicates mild-moderate cognitive impairment.
An increase in the baseline MoCA score by 2 points or greater indicates a clinically meaningful decline in cognitive status.
Cognitive assessments will be collected at baseline and 6 months follow-up visit after baseline/enrollment.
All cognitive assessments will be done by the study physicians.
The cognitive assessment collected at baseline will be the cognitive assessment used to assess cognitive impairment at the 6 month follow-up.
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6 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Cognitive improvement measured by a decrease in Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score from baseline to follow-up
Time Frame: 6 months
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Clinically meaningful cognitive improvement will be more common in the intervention group than the control group.
Clinically meaningful changes will be assessed using one of the following cognitive assessment tools: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam, or the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).
A 'crosswalk' will be used to convert all cognitive assessment measures to a MoCA score.
All participants will start with a baseline MoCA score of 10 to 26 which indicates mild-moderate cognitive impairment.
A decrease in the baseline MoCA score by 2 points or greater indicates a clinically meaningful improvement in cognitive status.
Cognitive assessments will be collected at baseline and 6 months follow-up visit after baseline/enrollment.
All cognitive assessments will be done by the study physicians.
The cognitive assessment collected at baseline will be the cognitive assessment used to assess cognitive impairment at the 6 month follow-up.
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6 months
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Referral Acceptance Rate
Time Frame: 1 month
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V-CST referral will be favorably received by participants.
V-CST referral will be assessed by referral acceptance rate measured by percentage of people referred for V-CST who accept the referral over the 1-month referral period process.
This outcome will be assessed at the end of the referral process.
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1 month
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Participant attendance
Time Frame: 7 weeks
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V-CST treatment will be favorably received by participants.
Participant attendance will be measured as the percentage of enrolled participants who attend each V-CST session.
V-CST sessions will be conducted over a 7-week period.
This outcome will be assessed at the end of the 7th week V-CST session.
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7 weeks
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Participant Attrition
Time Frame: 7 weeks
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V-CST treatment will be favorably received by participants.
Participant attrition will be measured as the percentage of enrolled participants who cease attending V-CST between session 1 and session 14.
V-CST sessions will be conducted over a 7-week period.
This outcome will be assessed at the end of the 7th week V-CST session.
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7 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Michael Lepore, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
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
- Mental Disorders
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Vascular Diseases
- Cerebrovascular Disorders
- Brain Diseases
- Central Nervous System Diseases
- Nervous System Diseases
- Arteriosclerosis
- Arterial Occlusive Diseases
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Parkinsonian Disorders
- Basal Ganglia Diseases
- Movement Disorders
- Synucleinopathies
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Tauopathies
- Cognition Disorders
- Intracranial Arterial Diseases
- Intracranial Arteriosclerosis
- Leukoencephalopathies
- Dementia
- Alzheimer Disease
- Cognitive Dysfunction
- Lewy Body Disease
- Dementia, Vascular
Other Study ID Numbers
- Pro00054748
- 5U54AG063546-04 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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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