Active Navigation Training (ANTaging)

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment; Spatial Navigation

Treatments: Other: CAVE; Other: TAU

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05768620

39M801

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pilot testing and development of an immersive virtual reality system for spatial navigation training in mild cognitive impairment syndrome.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment
• absence of severe cognitive deterioration as assessed by the Italian version of the MMSE (Magni et al. 1996)
• age ≥ 60

Exclusion criteria

• the presence of acute stroke/transient ischemic attack;
• the presence of other concomitants severe neurological/psychiatric diseases;
• history of traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness;
• physical/functional deficits that could affect the use of immersive virtual reality;
• severe visual deficiency;
• the presence of recurrent vertigo.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

CAVE

Experimental group

Description:

10 immersive virtual reality sessions to train spatial memory

Treatment:

Other: CAVE

TAU

Active Comparator group

Description:

10 paper and pencil sessions to train spatial memory

Treatment:

Other: TAU