Virtual Environment to Aid Cognitive Stimulation of Elderly People With Early Alzheimer's

University of Mogi das Cruzes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Virtual Environment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04919005

CAAE: 54290416.9.0000.5497

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research was carried out with the objective of verifying the possibility of intervention through cognitive training protocols to assist in the stimulation of neurons and to delay the degradation resulting from Alzheimer's disease in its initial phase. The specific objective of this research was to develop and validate a virtual environment of games (called SorrisoTur) that allows the intervention of cognitive training.

Full description

SorrisoTur encompasses cognitive training concepts and protocols in playful situations, which were coded in the form of 2D mini-games that are run on a computer connected to the Web, and designed to stimulate cognitive domains, such as memory, executive functions, spatial-visual skills, language (expression, comprehension, reading, and writing) and personality/behavior. For the comparison of results, three groups were created; one group of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease at an early stage, one group formed by healthy elderly, and another group with young people and applied Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults (WAIS-III) before and after of interventions with the games.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• People with physical or psychological conditions allow interacting with digital games;
• Elderly over 60 years with mild Alzheimer;
• Seniors over 60 Healthy;
• Healthy Youth;

Exclusion criteria

• People without physical or psychological conditions allow interacting with digital games;
• Elderly people over 60 years old who have any type of dementia other than Alzheimer, or moderate or severe Alzheimer;

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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34 participants in 3 patient groups

Healthy elderly people

Experimental group

Description:

Twelve healthy elderly people. Each participant underwent a pre-test, the intervention with a Virtual Environment, and a post-test.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Environment

Elderly people with Alzheimer's in the initial phase

Experimental group

Description:

Seven elderly people with Alzheimer's in the initial phase. Each participant underwent a pre-test, the intervention with a Virtual Environment, and a post-test.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Environment

Healthy young people

Experimental group

Description:

Fifteen healthy young people. Each participant underwent a pre-test, the intervention with a Virtual Environment, and a post-test.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Environment