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Social and Cognitive Online Training: the SCOT Project

NCT05023187 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2021-08-26

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Summary

Social isolation and reduced involvement in cognitive activities are associated with repercussions on cognitive well-being and health status in elderly adults. In particular, loneliness and social isolation represent risk factors in favouring cognitive decline and dementia. The Social Cognition Online Training (SCOT) project aims to evaluate the beneficial effects of an online intervention on social-cognitive functioning in healthy elderly subjects.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SCOT

A 8-week social and cognitive online training to improve both cognitive and social functioning, which includes 2 sessions (\~45 minutes each) of individual cognitive training through the BrainHQ© program 2020 (BrainHQ© Posit Science) and a psycho-educational group session for each week (24 sessions in total). In the experimental intervention, all activities are focused on enhancing executive functions (working memory, processing speed, inhibitory control etc.) and social cognition abilities (identifying/recognizing facial expressions, styles attribution, drawing conclusions etc.).

BEHAVIORAL

CON

A 8-week active control intervention consisting of 2 sessions (\~45 minutes each) of cognitive stimulation exercises and a group session for each week (24 sessions in total) during which the various cognitive domains are deepened and the exercises carried out during the week are reviewed all together. The online control intervention has been specifically designed to increase the cognitive involvement of the subjects and to replicate the condition of exposure to social dynamics.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Università degli Studi di Trento

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Costanza Papagno · Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello - CIMeC

  • Alessandra Dodich · Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello - CIMeC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-19
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2022-02-28

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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