Creation of an Ecological Tool Assessing Episodic Memory in Geriatrics (ECOTESTGER)

Centre Hospitalier de Lens

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Memory Disorders; Neurocognitive Disorders

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: ecological MAI test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05668598

2022-A02139-34 (Other Identifier)

2022-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study the participants can be recruited via scheduled consultation and external institutions (associations, senior club..). Neuropsychological assessment will be realize to determine presence or absence of neurodegenerative disease.

Study test is ecological MAI. This test are assigned in two groups (with or without neurocognitive disorders).

Full description

In this study the participants can be recruited via scheduled consultation and external institutions (associations, senior club..). Neuropsychological assessment will be realize to determine presence or absence of neurodegenerative disease.

Study test is ecological MAI. Participation will be 30 minutes for patients see in case of routine care and 2h30 for those accompanying the patients and participants recruited in external institutions.

Participants are assigned in two groups. Group 1 : with neurocognitive disorders Group 2 : without neurocognitive disorders

Benefits :

For participants without neurodegenerative disorder, study enables to take control early if anomaly will be detected.

The study permit to have cognitive assessment.

Risk : It's possible that participants feel tired. No constraints for participants seen during scheduled consultation.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female ≥ 70 ans
• Person have good locomotion, move independently
• Personne agree to participate

Groupe 1 : 17≤MMSE≤24 (GRECO) Diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases (major neurocognitive disorders: Alzheimer, mixed dementia, lobar frontotemporal degeneration, vascular dementia).

Groupe 2 : MMSE ≥ à 25 (GRECO) Without neurodegenerative disease

Exclusion criteria

• Person with legal protective measures
• Person deprived of liberty
• Mental retardation or MMSE≤ 16
• Understanding verbal disorders
• Visual major disturbances
• Person with disease causing increased fatigue
• Person with psychiatric pathology excepted anxiety disorder or depression with mild episodes.
• Person not covered by French national health insurance

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Groupe 1 : with neurocognitive disorders

Other group

Description:

with neurocognitive disorders

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: ecological MAI test

Groupe 2 : without neurocognitive disorders

Other group

Description:

without neurocognitive disorders

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: ecological MAI test