Effects of Different Types of Cognitive Loading on Gait With Growing Age

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gait Analysis; Cognitive Load, Performance

Treatments: Other: 3. Motor Task; Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task; Other: 1. working memory task.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06656052

REC/01884 Imran Amjad

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to determine how different types of cognitive loading affect the gait of an individual and its association with growing age. The main aim is to find out if:

1. There is a significant difference in the effect of three different methods of cognitive loading on gait parameters across age groups.
2. There is an association of cognitive loading with different age groups.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Both male and female genders.
• Age between 21-70 years.
• Healthy individuals with normal systemic history.
• Individuals with normal cognitive level (score between 0-7 on 6CIT test)

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals having any comorbidities.
• Individuals having diagnosed gait disorders/deviations.
• Non-cooperative participants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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150 participants in 5 patient groups

First Age Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with Age 21-30 years. All members of group number 1 who fall in the eligibility criteria will undergo three different types of cognitive loading. Three types of cognitive loading will be applied randomly to eliminate any bias. Each Method will be used three times with pre and post-recordings to ensure reliability.

Treatment:

Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task

Other: 1. working memory task.

Other: 3. Motor Task

Second Age Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with age 31-40 years. All members of group number 2 who fall in the eligibility criteria will undergo three different types of cognitive loading. Three types of cognitive loading will be applied randomly to eliminate any bias. Each Method will be used three times with pre and post-recordings to ensure reliability.

Treatment:

Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task

Other: 1. working memory task.

Other: 3. Motor Task

Third Age Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with Age 41-50 years. All members of group number 3 who fall in the eligibility criteria will undergo three different types of cognitive loading. Three types of cognitive loading will be applied randomly to eliminate any bias. Each Method will be used three times with pre and post-recordings to ensure reliability.

Treatment:

Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task

Other: 1. working memory task.

Other: 3. Motor Task

Fourth Age Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with age 51-60 years. All members of group number 4 who fall in the eligibility criteria will undergo three different types of cognitive loading. Three types of cognitive loading will be applied randomly to eliminate any bias. Each Method will be used three times with pre and post-recordings to ensure reliability.

Treatment:

Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task

Other: 1. working memory task.

Other: 3. Motor Task

Fifth Age Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with age 61-70 years. All members of group number 5 who fall in the eligibility criteria will undergo three different types of cognitive loading. Three types of cognitive loading will be applied randomly to eliminate any bias. Each Method will be used three times with pre and post-recordings to ensure reliability.

Treatment:

Other: 2. Visual and Verbal Fluency Task

Other: 1. working memory task.

Other: 3. Motor Task