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Postoperative Cognitive Training to Prevent Delirium

NCT06601673 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 108

Last updated 2025-02-21

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Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to test whether daily postoperative cognitive training can prevent delirium in older patients after major surgery.

The main questions to be answered is:

Can daily cognitive training reduce the rate of postoperative delirium in older patients after surgery?

Participants will be visited daily for the first 5 days after surgery and asked to take part in a tablet-based cognitive training programme for 2 hours a day (in 2 sessions).

The researchers will compare patients who receive the training with a control group of patients who listen to audio books for the same amount of time and a control group who receive standard care (no intervention).

Conditions

  • Postoperative Delirium

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive training

The intervention consists of computer-based cognitive training in the areas of attention, processing speed, memory, emotional intelligence, reasoning and orientation. The training takes place under supervision for 120 minutes a day from the first to the fifth postoperative day.

BEHAVIORAL

Listen to audio book

Here, an audio book is listened to for 2h daily for the first five postoperative days (or until discharge from hospital if earlier). The audio book is brought and set up by study staff.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-03-31
Completion
2018-10-31

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