Making Memory Better for Seniors With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01532739

CDHA-RS/2012-227

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a cognitive training group in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment, using a new paradigm that will optimize ecological validity by (1) focusing on everyday memory problems, (2) supplementing traditional memory training with the teaching of an empirically-supported problem-solving approach, and (3) employing a clinically representative sample of individuals with MCI (e.g., not excluding those with mild affective symptoms).

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of dementia
• History of neurological conditions known to impair cognition
• History of alcohol or drug abuse
• History of chronic psychiatric illness
• Current symptoms of moderate to severe depression (Geriatric Depression Scale >19) or anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory >15)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive training

No cognitive training

No Intervention group