Board Games Among Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients Experience (GAME Project) (GAME-Project)

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Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cognitive Impairment, Mild

Treatments: Behavioral: Modern board and card games group; Behavioral: Paper and pencil tasks group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04835909

NCT2021UTC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nowadays, on geriatric centres, cognitive decline used to be prevented by pen and paper exercises (Calero García & Navarro Gonzalez, 2006). However, as Lampit et al. (2014) suggest, studies based on the efficacy and effectiveness of new cognitive-based interventions in order to improve these cognitive processes are fundamental (Lampit et al., 2014). Cognitive-based interventions are interventions that directly or indirectly try to improve cognitive processes (Chiu et al., 2017). Between the different kinds of cognitive-based interventions, cognitive training permits stablish randomized controlled trials. Cognitive training consists of repeating during a concrete time a standardized set of tasks in order to maintain or improve one or some cognitive processes. Meta-analysis studies have shown that computerized cognitive training can improve in a moderate size some cognitive processes in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia (Hill et al., 2017) and without those diagnoses (Lampit, Hallock, & Valenzuela, 2014; Chiu et al., 2017). Although it seems that computerized training is effective, safe and secure, it is important to note the social component of the definition of health (OMS, 1948). Chang, Wray & Lin (2014) found that social relationships predict the use of leisure activities and this predict a better physical health and wellbeing psychological. In fact, a comparative study found that those elderly people that have played board games have a 15% lower risk of having dementia diagnose and problems related with memory (Dartigues et al., 2013). To sum up, the aim of this research project is to test the effectiveness of a cognitive training based on modern board and card games in elderly people with a diagnose of mild-cognitive impairment in comparison to do cognitive paper and pencil tasks or in a wait-list comparison group.

Enrollment: 112 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participation in cognitive disease center
• Amnestic MCI diagnoses (clinical diagnoses following the guidelines of Petersen et al. 2011)
• Global deterioration scale (GDS) 2-3 values
• Participation assessing outcomes of the caregivers in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in another cognitive training program
• Dementia, neurologic or other disease non-neurodegenerative, which could affect cognitive change over time (medical-reported)
• Severe visual impairment, language impairment or motoric impairment of the upper extremity which significantly affects ability to solve jigsaw puzzles (medical-reported)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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112 participants in 3 patient groups

Behavioral: modern board and card games

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will play modern board and card games in groups at medical center 2 times per week for at least 1 hour over a period of 16 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Modern board and card games group

Behavioral: paper and pencil tasks

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will do cognitive paper and pencil tasks in groups at medical center 2 times per week for at least 1 hour over a period of 16 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Paper and pencil tasks group

Wait-list

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will be in a wait-list over a period of 16 weeks. Then, they received the board and card games' or paper and pencil tasks' intervention.