Digital Support for People With Cognitive Impairment

Linköping University (LiU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Injuries; Stroke; Cognitive Impairments

Treatments: Other: Cognitive support by RemindMe

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04470219

RemindMe

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cognitive impairment may cause problems in planning and initiating daily activities, as well as remembering to do what is scheduled. This study investigates the effectiveness of an interactive web-based mobile reminder calendar, (RemindMe). The calendar sends text messages to the user's mobile phone as support in everyday life, for persons with cognitive impairment due to neurological injury/diagnoses. The study has a randomized controlled trial design with data collection at baseline and at follow-up sessions after two and four months. Data collection started in October 2016 and continued until February 2018. RemindMe may give the needed support to remind the person and thus increase the ability to perform activities and to become independent in everyday life.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants with cognitive impairment after stroke or other neurological diseases/injury
• Participants experiencing the need for support in planning, organizing and remembering to do activities in everyday life
• Participants having access to a computer and mobile phone/smartphone
• Participants having linguistic ability to participate in assessments

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with palliative care needs
• Participants with reduced vision and/or hearing loss that affects the ability to use a mobile phone/smartphone
• Participants with depression or psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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16 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive rehabilitation as usual and training how to use RemindMe by personnel from the research group and an occupational therapist working at the rehabilitation clinic. The participants will use RemindMe for two months. The participants choose activities that he/she wishes to remember to carry out with support by RemindMe. An individual follow-up session will be conducted once a week by the occupational therapist to evaluate if the chosen activities were performed and discuss strategies for the continued use of RemindMe. After two months the participants decide if he/she wants to continue to use RemindMe.

Treatment:

Other: Cognitive support by RemindMe

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group receive treatment as usual by the rehabilitation personnel, for example, occupational therapists give interventions that provide support for memory, it could be a paper calendar or other memory devices or strategies.