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Cognitive Training to Promote Brain Health: Implementation and Engagement

24 januari 2018 uppdaterad av: Rogerio Panizzutti, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Cognition encompasses memory, attention, language and other brain capacities that are necessary for good quality of life and independence. Age-related cognitive decline starts at the third decade of life and in some cases can start to impact daily functioning in the late forties. Dementia is the most devastating consequence associated with age-related cognitive decline. Recent studies indicate that improving cognition by means of intensive computerized brain training can mitigate some aspects of agerelated cognitive decline, and may even have a role in preventing or delaying dementia onset. Critically, the capacity of a given individual to improve their cognitive performance after training is fundamentally related to engagement with the exercises. Currently, little is known about how to apply intensive computerized cognitive training effectively in the health system, ensuring engagement and best progress. This project aims to tackle this challenge by developing, applying and testing personalized approaches to implement cognitive training in daily life of older adults that were recently evaluated at Memory Clinics and their care partners. The community readiness approach will be implemented using semi-structured interviews, conducted with subjects that may be interested in cognitive training, key informant, and key stakeholders. Using this information, the investigators will design an individualized training program and follow up its application in a feasibility trial. Twenty participants, recently evaluated at different Memory Clinics in Ireland, will be recruited, interviewed and invited to engage, over the ensuing 2 to 3 months, in computerized cognitive training. Subjects will be assessed after completion of the intervention for training adherence and individual gains on the computerized exercises. In order to gain insight about regional specificities of the approach the investigators will perform a parallel project using the same methodology in Brazil. This project is expected to inform the future implementation of cognitive training in public health policies for older adults.

Studieöversikt

Status

Okänd

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Studietyp

Interventionell

Inskrivning (Förväntat)

50

Fas

  • Fas 2

Kontakter och platser

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Studieorter

Deltagandekriterier

Forskare letar efter personer som passar en viss beskrivning, så kallade behörighetskriterier. Några exempel på dessa kriterier är en persons allmänna hälsotillstånd eller tidigare behandlingar.

Urvalskriterier

Åldrar som är berättigade till studier

  • Barn
  • Vuxen
  • Äldre vuxen

Tar emot friska volontärer

Nej

Kön som är behöriga för studier

Allt

Beskrivning

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Being evaluated at a memory clinic in the last year, or be the care partner of a person evaluated at a memory clinic
  • Adequate visual and auditory acuity to allow practice on the computerized training exercises
  • Physical ability sufficient to allow performance of the computerized training exercises
  • Provide signed and dated informed consent form.
  • Willing to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any medical condition that precludes performing the computerized training exercises
  • Advanced dementia.

Studieplan

Det här avsnittet ger detaljer om studieplanen, inklusive hur studien är utformad och vad studien mäter.

Hur är studien utformad?

Designdetaljer

  • Primärt syfte: Förebyggande
  • Tilldelning: N/A
  • Interventionsmodell: Enskild gruppuppgift
  • Maskning: Ingen (Open Label)

Vapen och interventioner

Deltagargrupp / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Experimentell: Kognitiv träning
Beteende: Computerized cognitive training
Posit Science Inc. will supply the software for the computerized cognitive training through the platform BrainHQ, which is available on line. The training program consists of a set of computerized exercises designed to improve the speed and accuracy of sensory information processing while engaging neuromodulatory systems involved in attention and reward. The rationale is that, in order to understand and remember information, the brain must first generate precise and reliable neurological responses that represent the sensory stimuli. These exercises continuously adjust the difficulty level to user performance to maintain an approximately 85% rate of correct responses. Trials with correct responses are rewarded with points and animations. The goal is to increase the effectiveness with which these stimuli engage and drive plastic changes in brain systems. Engagement is monitored by electronic data upload following each training session.

Vad mäter studien?

Primära resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Engagement
Tidsram: 3 months
will be defined as a continuous variable (number of hours of training completed by the participant).
3 months

Sekundära resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Individual gains on the computerized exercises
Tidsram: 3 months
The computerized cognitive training platform, called BrainHQ, provided by Posit Science Inc, provides one measure of the individual gains on the computerized exercises with training.
3 months
Quantitative measure of motivation with the computerized training exercise
Tidsram: 3 months
Motivation will be assessed by the quantitative score provided by the Adapted Ultrech Engagement Scale - UWES. The Utrecht Engagement Scale has 17 items that are scored on a 7-point Likert scale indicating the frequency with which engagement at a given activity happens in the situations described in each item (0 indicates "never" and 6 "always"). The factors Vigor and Concentration have six items each and the factor Dedication has 5 items. The final score of the Engagement corresponds to the sum of the scores on the three factors.
3 months
Qualitative motivation with the computerized training exercise
Tidsram: 3 months
Qualitative motivation will be assessed using semi-structured interview.
3 months
Training adherence (dichotomic variable)
Tidsram: 3 months
Training adherence will be defined as training more than 10 hours
3 months

Samarbetspartners och utredare

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Sponsor

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Samarbetspartners

University of Dublin, Trinity College
Global Brain health Institute

Studieavstämningsdatum

Dessa datum spårar framstegen för inlämningar av studieposter och sammanfattande resultat till ClinicalTrials.gov. Studieposter och rapporterade resultat granskas av National Library of Medicine (NLM) för att säkerställa att de uppfyller specifika kvalitetskontrollstandarder innan de publiceras på den offentliga webbplatsen.

Studera stora datum

Studiestart (Faktisk)

12 januari 2018

Primärt slutförande (Förväntat)

31 december 2019

Avslutad studie (Förväntat)

31 december 2019

Studieregistreringsdatum

Först inskickad

12 januari 2018

Först inskickad som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

22 januari 2018

Första postat (Faktisk)

24 januari 2018

Uppdateringar av studier

Senaste uppdatering publicerad (Faktisk)

26 januari 2018

Senaste inskickade uppdateringen som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

24 januari 2018

Senast verifierad

1 januari 2018

Mer information

Termer relaterade till denna studie

Ytterligare relevanta MeSH-villkor

Andra studie-ID-nummer

  • GBHI_ALZ-18-544160

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