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Real and Virtual Tasks in Older Adults

NCT02960165 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2016-11-15

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Summary

Objective: Evaluate whether a task practiced in virtual environment could provide better performance than the same task in real environment and if performing a task in virtual environment could enable transfer to the same task in real environment and vice versa. Method: the investigators evaluated 65 older adults of both genders, aged 60-82 years. The investigators applied a timing coincident task to measure the perceptual-motor ability to perform a motor response. The participants were divided into two groups: a) started in a real interface and b) started in a virtual interface.

Conditions

  • Aged

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual interface group

First practice on virtual interface in order to evaluate the improvement and its influence on real interface performance (second practice).

BEHAVIORAL

Real interface group

First practice on real interface in order to evaluate the improvement and its influence on virtual interface performance (second practice).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos BM Monteiro, Ph.D. · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
82 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2016-10-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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