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Can Entertaining Action-video Games Enhance Dynamic Visual Function and Improve Balance? A Randomized Controlled Trial.

NCT02252874 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2018-02-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This project is aimed to find out whether action video games can enhance dynamic visual function and improve balance function in the community-dwelling older adults. It is also aimed to examine the relationship between dynamic visions and balance functions.

Conditions

  • Vision, Balance and Falls in Older Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Slow-paced action video game

20 hours slow-paced action video games

BEHAVIORAL

Fast-paced action video game

20 hours fast-paced action video games

BEHAVIORAL

Control

20 hours leisure activities

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Allen MY Cheong, PhD · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2017-06-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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