INTERVENTION COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS FOR ADULT COGNITIVE TRAINING (ICE-ACT) (CLINICALTRIALS#:NCT03141281)

ABSTRACT: Abstract Age-related perceptual and cognitive declines are associated with difficulties performing everyday tasks required to remain independent. Encouraging improvements in cognitive abilities have been shown for various short-term interventions (e.g., the ACTIVE trial, digital games, aerobic exercise) but there is little evidence for direct impact on independence. This project compared the effect of broad and directed (narrow) technology-based training on basic perceptual and cognitive abilities in older adults and on the performance of simulated tasks of daily living including driving and fraud avoidance. Participants (N = 230, Mean age = 72) were randomly assigned to four training conditions: broad training using either 1) a web-based brain game or 2) the video game, or to directed training for 3) Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) training using web-based programs for both driving and fraud avoidance training, or 4) to an active control condition of puzzle solving. Training took approximately 15–20 hours for each intervention condition across four weeks. Before training began, participants received baseline ability tests of perception, attention, memory, and cognition, activities of daily living, as well as a driving simulator test for hazard perception, and a financial fraud recognition test. They were tested again on these measures following training completion (post-test). A one-year follow-up from training completion is scheduled. The baseline results support that randomization was successful across the intervention conditions and IADL measures that we developed for the current project were shown to be reliable. We also discuss project challenges and expected results from post-test.

SUBMITTER: Yoon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6239819 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature