Kinect-based Versus Tablet-based Cognitive Training: a Pilot Study With Psychiatric Patients

Universidade da Madeira

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric Disorder

Treatments: Procedure: Tablet-based cognitive training; Procedure: Kinect-based cognitive training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05100849

1/2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to analyze which cognitive training experimental condition - Tablet versus Kinect - results in greater cognitive, mood, quality of life, and functional gains in a sample of chronic psychiatric patients.

Full description

Cognitive deficits are a nuclear feature of several psychiatric disorders, leading to a decrease in functional abilities and quality of life. Besides facilitating the inclusion of more ecologically valid stimuli and training tasks, technology-based cognitive training methods allow more dynamic interactions with the cognitive training content, which can result in an enhancement of patients' motivation and engagement in the therapeutic process. The modality of interaction with the cognitive training content may influence patients' response to cognitive training interventions. For instance, cognitive training through the tablet requires essentially hand movements (e.g., interaction with the training tasks by touching the correct stimuli), while cognitive training through the Kinect involves the performance of wide range movements (e.g., interaction with the training tasks by making specific "body" movements to select the correct stimuli). This study aims to analyze which cognitive training experimental condition - Tablet versus Kinect - results in greater cognitive, mood, quality of life, and functional gains in a sample of chronic psychiatric patients.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: Under 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Psychiatric diagnosis;
• Maximum age: 75 years old;
• Relatively preserved language abilities (expressive and receptive language);
• Being able to read and write;
• Having no motor limitations;
• Having no medical history of neurological conditions (e.g., stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, etc.)
• Preserved visual and auditory acuity;

Exclusion criteria

• Experiencing an acute psychiatric episode.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Kinect-based cognitive training

Experimental group

Description:

Standard treatment protocol and 14 sessions (biweekly during 30 minutes) of Kinect-based cognitive training inspired by instrumental activities of daily living.

Treatment:

Procedure: Kinect-based cognitive training

Tablet-based cognitive training

Experimental group

Description:

Standard treatment protocol and 14 sessions (biweekly during 30 minutes) of Tablet-based cognitive training inspired by instrumental activities of daily living.

Treatment:

Procedure: Tablet-based cognitive training