Efficacy of Paper-based Cognitive Training in Vietnamese Patients With Early Alzheimer's Disease

University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Alzheimer Disease

Treatments

Other: Paper - based cognitive training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

R01AG064688 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IRB-VNO1002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of paper-based cognitive training in Vietnamese patients with early Alzheimer's disease

Enrollment

200 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

60 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

For patient:
- Diagnosis of Probable Alzheimer's Disease per DSM-5 criteria;
- In the early stage of AD (MMSE from 20 to 25);
- Age from 60 - 80 years old;
- Had greater than 5 years of formal education.
For Caregiver:
- Members (including, but not limited to partners, children, relatives, lived-in helper of the patient) that are important for care delivery and provide care-related tasks (eg personal care, eating, cooking, cleaning) and everyday decision making to the patients. They are not required to live together or spend a specific amount of time with the patients;
- Older than 18 years of age;
- Possess adequate Vietnamese language skills and no cognitive impairment to conduct interview and evaluation

Exclusion criteria

For patient:
- Patients with concomitant diseases (heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure or thyroid diseases) that affect cognitive functions;
- Diagnosed with significant neurologic disease other than AD (Parkinson's disease, multi-infarct dementia, schizophrenia, history of significant head trauma followed by persistent neurologic defaults, ...), major depression within the past 1 year, or taking psychoactive medications (antidepressants with significant anticholinergic side effects, neuroleptics, chronic anxiolytics or sedative hypnotics, etc) within the past 1 month;
- Having major visual, auditory, reading, or writing impairments;
- Patients and/or caregivers who decline to participate.
For cargiver:
- Having subjective complaints of cognitive impairment prevents them from understanding the instruction from the research team;
- Having significant visual, auditory, reading, or writing impairments;
- Caregivers who decline to participate