Mobile Health Cognitive Stimulation in Heroin Users (Re@dict)

Pedro Gamito

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile health cognitive stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02308878

SLB_SUD01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Heroin use has been related to brain dysfunction particularly in the prefrontal cortex. These effects are evident in neuropsychological impairments in attention, memory and executive functioning of heroin users. To assess these deficits and the application of a novel approach of cognitive stimulation to heroin users in treatment for opioid dependence, we have carried out a neuropsychological intervention program with mobile health technology. Patients diagnosed with opioid dependence were submitted to cognitive stimulation during four weeks in a three-day/week basis.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Only patients that scored higher than the cutoff values for their age on the Mini Mental Examination Test and with no clinical scores on the Symptoms Checklist Revised will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with alcohol dependence or with history of previous neurological disorders will be excluded from the study. Patients will be also screened for minimal computer literacy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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65 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment-as-usual

No Intervention group

Description:

This group consists of treatment-as-usual for opioid dependence syndrome.

Mobile health cognitive stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Cognitive stimulation using mobile technology with m-Health applications.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile health cognitive stimulation