Study of a Daily Cognition Training Program

Summary

HYPOTHESIS In older adults who receive a direct intervention from the perspective of occupational therapy with a "Training Program in Daily Cognition", there are greater benefits, both in the overall cognitive performance and in the levels of daily cognition, that in the older adults who receive an intervention based on a "Traditional Cognitive Stimulation Program", achieving not only an improvement or maintenance of cognitive functions, but a generalization and transfer of that improvement in their daily lives and occupational performance.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of a "Training Program in Daily Cognition" in the elderly, to improve the levels of daily cognition and global cognitive performance.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Compare the difference in levels of daily cognition between the participants of the control group who carry out a "Traditional Cognitive Stimulation Program" and the participants of the experimental group who carry out a "Training Program in Daily Cognition".

Analyze if there is a difference in the levels of global cognitive performance between the participants of the control group that carry out a "Traditional Cognitive Stimulation Program" and the participants of the experimental group that carry out a "Training Program in Daily Cognition".

To study the relationship between standard psychometric tests that measure cognitive performance and the ECB Daily Cognition Battery Recognition Test that measures daily cognition.

Analyze if there is a relationship between age and cognitive performance and the daily cognition of the elderly.

Describe the relationship between the educational level that the participants possess and the cognitive performance and their daily cognition Evaluate the impact of gender in the elderly with cognitive performance and daily cognition.

Check whether or not physical activity influences the cognitive performance and daily cognition of study participants.

STUDY DESIGN: Experimental, randomized, stratified, prospective, longitudinal study using a parallel scheme of fixed allocation experimental group and control group.

The protocol has been authorized by the Ethics Committee of the Salamanca health area to make the project possible.

Conditions

• Occupational Therapy
• Cognition Disorders in Old Age
• Cognitive Dysfunction
• Rehabilitation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Daily Cognition Training Program

Tasks are carried out in which the subject has to exercise different cognitive functions (praxies, attention, language, memory orientation, gnosias and executive functions; mainly working memory decision making, planning, reasoning and temporal estimation) during the development of AIVD For this, similar materials are used to those that the elderly could find in daily tasks or when solving day-to-day problems. Specifically we focus on tasks related to taking medication and adherence to treatment. Some examples of tasks are: the management of a medical prescription, expiration of a medication, understanding of the prescriptions made by the doctor, guidelines for taking medication (doses, schedules ...) and indications and contraindications, filling pill boxes, recall of controls doctors, medication control, prospective memory of medical management, etc.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Salamanca

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Eduardo José Fernández Rodríguez, PhD · University of Salamanca

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-01-01

Primary Completion

2019-12-31

Completion

2019-12-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations