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Development and Evaluation of a Home-Based Dual-Task Training Program to Improve Balance Performance for Older Adults

NCT02280928 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2015-07-22

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to (1) develop and test the effectiveness of home-based interventions on dual-task performance in older adults; and (2) determine the generalizability of the four trainings (i.e. single-task motor training, single-task cognitive training, dual-task motor-cognitive training, and dual-task cognitive-cognitive trainings) to novel tasks.

Conditions

  • Elderly
  • Aged

Interventions

OTHER

Balance exercise

Balance activities, using a task-oriented approach, progress participants from body stability, to body stability plus hand manipulation, then body transport, and finally body transport plus hand manipulation.

OTHER

Cognitive training

Cognitive training involves executive function, attention, and working memory. Examples of cognitive training include finding the exit to a maze, calculation, visual-spatial skills, Sudoku, Stroop color-word task, word search, spot the differences, visual discrimination, and memory scanning skills.

OTHER

Dual-task cognitive-cognitive training

The Dual-task cognitive-cognitive training involves applying two cognitive tasks at the same time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chiang Mai University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • Thailand

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