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Preoperative Cognitive Training for Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

NCT03353987 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2019-08-05

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Summary

Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) is a state of decline in cognitive ability after surgery and is frequently seen among our elderly population. Many studies have looked into predictive risk factors for POCD while research is underway to search for pre-emptive measures to avoid this unfavourable outcome. Most will be looking at utilizing mobile software applications of cognitive training but in many poorer countries, owning electronic devices may not be an option or may be culturally less acceptable among the older patients. Hence, the investigators intend to investigate if a home-based logbook for cognitive training will reduce the incidence of POCD in a single centre study.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive training

Procedure 1. A therapist will go through the daily routine of the participants at home before starting the intervention 2. Selections of exercise items based on familiar items/ activities at home 3. Given a memory logbook with list of household items, names and numbers and newspaper cuttings from the previous week 4. Taught on how to perform the exercises 5. Perform at least one hour per day 6. Both spatial and visual memory strategies will be used for memory training: simple mnemonics, associations, visualisations, rhymes 7. Advised to follow-up with the therapist to review on the progress and compliance of exercises weekly 8. The difficulty of the exercise will be adjusted weekly List of exercises: 1. Memorizing a set of lists, household items, names and numbers 2. Summarising the contents of newspaper cuttings within a set of time 3. Searching and listing sets of words from newspaper cuttings

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Malaya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pui San Loh · University of Malaya

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-01
Primary Completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2019-05-31

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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