Age Stereotype Priming and Social Participation (ASPSP)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Aging Well; Memory Loss

Treatments: Other: Age-related stereotyping priming; Other: Non age-related stereotype priming

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04202120

AFC2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Memory performance is shown to be affected by age stereotypes among older adults. The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of age stereotype primes on episodic memory using priming intervention. The moderating effects of social participation is also examined.

Full description

All participants are community-dwelling older adults residing in Hong Kong. They are invited to review their social participation profile and given a brief psycho-education about memory.

They are then randomly allocated to one of the two following conditions. Participants are primed either with age stereotypes or non-age stereotypes words by implicit priming intervention in the context of a reaction task prior to the episodic memory tasks. Other measures such as demographic variables and social participation rate are collected by questionnaire during the delayed recall interval.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Indication of largely normal cognitive functioning as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms -

Exclusion criteria

Sensory deficits and evidence of cognitive impairment as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Age-related priming

Experimental group

Description:

Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with age-related primes.

Treatment:

Other: Age-related stereotyping priming

Non-age related priming

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with NON age-related primes.

Treatment:

Other: Non age-related stereotype priming