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Evaluation of the Online Memory & Aging Program and Online Goal Management Training

NCT03602768 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2021-07-27

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Summary

The current study is designed to test the effectiveness of online programs for memory and executive functions in healthy aging. The investigators are testing online adaptations of two cognitive interventions that have been extensively studied, validated, and implemented in clinical settings: The Memory \& Aging Program (MAP) targets normal memory change in healthy aging, and Goal Management Training (GMT) targets executive functioning deficits in a variety of cognitive and neurological conditions including healthy aging. Both programs combine psycho-education, targeted skills training and clinical support to empower participants with knowledge and strategies to harness their cognitive faculties. These programs are being tested against a waitlist control as well as against a commercial/research brain training platform (Cambridge Brain Sciences) in a design comparing performance on memory and executive functioning measures before and after the interventions/controls. The main hypothesis is that MAP will lead to memory-specific improvements above control conditions, whereas GMT will lead to greater improvements in measures of executive functions relative to controls.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Goal Management Training

Pre-recorded videos and games combine psycho-education, targeted skills training, and mindfulness practice to teach a system where participants can take control of their attention and cognitive faculties.

BEHAVIORAL

Memory & Aging Program

Pre-recorded videos and activities combine psycho-education, memory strategy training, and social support to educate about normal memory change in aging, normalize the experience of participants going through it, and equip them to handle age-related memory change.

BEHAVIORAL

Cambridge Brain Sciences

Commercial brain training software available for subscription to the general public and for research studies.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Baycrest

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brian Levine, PhD · Rotman Research Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-18
Primary Completion
2020-08-30
Completion
2020-08-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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