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Impact of a Cognitive Intervention Enriched With Leisure Activities in Persons With Subjective Cognitive Decline

NCT03271190 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2026-03-17

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Summary

The team "Cognitive intervention, cognitive reserve and brain plasticity", Team 10, is part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). The team's aim is to develop and test a multi-faceted intervention program meant to increase cognitive and brain reserve by providing cognitive stimulation through participation in cognitive training sessions and engaging leisure activities. This will be done with a partially randomized controlled double-blind preference trial with a comprehensive cohort design, in participants with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) recruited in Montreal and Toronto.

Conditions

  • Subjective Cognitive Decline

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ENGAGE SPANISH/MUSIC

Cognitive strategies to improve attention and memory skills (21 hours), leisure activities (music lessons or Spanish lessons) (27 hours), selected videogames to practice variable attention strategies (4 hours in class + about 10 hours at home). Total of 24 2-hour in class sessions over 4 months. The training will be delivered to small groups of 5 to 8 participants by a trained therapist for formal sessions and a professional music or Spanish teacher for leisure sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

ENGAGE DISCOVERY

Educational content about brain and healthy aging (21 hours), leisure activities (watching documentaries followed by group discussion and debate) (27 hours), selected non-stimulating videogames (4 hours in class + about 10 hours at home). Total of 24 2-hour in class sessions over 4 months. The training will be delivered to small groups of 5 to 8 participants by the same trained therapist as in the ENGAGE arm.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest

    collaborator OTHER

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sylvie Belleville, PhD · Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-15
Primary Completion
2022-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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