N/A
N=19
Maintaining Autonomy as we Age. Strategy Training for Age-related Executive Dysfunction.
Aging
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01163279 ↗Enrolled (actual)
19
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Jan 2017
Primary outcome: Primary: Total Number of Goals Improved to Criterion on the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) — 50; 19.6; 50; 32.6 percentage of untrained goals improved — p=0.03
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Real world strategy approach (Behavioral); Psychosocial Education (Behavioral)
- Age
- Older Adult · 65+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Baycrest
- Primary completion
- Oct 2011
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Total Number of Goals Improved to Criterion on the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) |
50; 19.6; 50; 32.6; 36.4; 26.1 | 0.03 sig |
| SECONDARY General Self Efficacy Scale (GSE) |
29.10; 32.56; 30.90; 33.56; 30.50; 33.56 | <0.05 sig |
| SECONDARY Stanford Patient Education Research Center- General Health Subscale |
2.20; 1.89; 2.20; 1.78; 2.20; 2.00 | >0.05 |
| SECONDARY Stanford Patient Education Research Center- Health Distress Subscale |
2.70; 4.22; 3.80; 3.67; 3.70; 4.11 | >0.05 |
| SECONDARY Stanford Patient Education Research Center- Physical Activity Subscale |
4.08; 5.31; 4.45; 3.64; 4.15; 3.19 | <0.05 sig |
| SECONDARY Stanford Patient Education Research Center- Communication With Physicians Subscale |
8.40; 11.00; 9.50; 9.11; 10.00; 8.89 | <0.1 |
| SECONDARY Stanford Patient Education Research Center- Visits to Physician and Emergency Department in the Past Six Months Subscale |
2.30; 2.78; 1.50; 3.33; 2.00; 2.33 | <0.05 sig |
| SECONDARY Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (DKEFS) Tower Test- Mean First-Move Time |
5.48; 6.13; 3.00; 3.69; 2.47; 1.72 | <0.1 |
| SECONDARY DKEFS Tower Test- Achievement Score |
17.10; 15.78; 18.30; 19.44; 20.90; 18.89 | <0.05 sig |
| SECONDARY DKEFS Word Fluency |
55.30; 48.56; 56.40; 50.33; 57.40; 50.11 | >0.05 |
| SECONDARY DKEFS Trail Making- Condition 4: Number-letter Switching |
104.50; 91.11; 88.40; 80.56; 94.10; 84.44 | >0.05 |
Summary
Healthy older adults with self-reported cognitive difficulties who receive strategy training will demonstrate greater performance benefits on measures of real-world activities, relative to those receiving a control intervention, immediately post treatment and at follow-up.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- All participants must score within 1.5 standard deviation (SD) of age and education-corrected normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and on a battery of neuropsychological tests of attention, memory and executive function (which will insure that participants are unlikely to meet the criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)).
- No clinically relevant depression (scores ≤22) on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Self-reported complains about cognitive function
Exclusion Criteria
- Recent bereavement (within last 6 months)
- History of neurological disease
- Psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization and/or history or current substance abuse
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01163279). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.