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To Drill or Not to Drill: Do Memory Drills Help Train the Ability to "Remember to Remember" in Veterans

NCT06656637 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2025-12-19

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to memory drilling works in improving the ability to remember to do something later in treatment-seeking veterans. The main question it aims to answer is:

Does adding memory drilling to intensive treatment programs improve the patient's ability to remember to do something later?

Researchers will compare typical standardized memory training to the memory training with drilling to see if drilling improves the veterans' ability to remember tasks they are supposed to do later.

Participants will:

* complete the Operation Mend intensive treatment program with either standard care (either with or without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder \[PTSD\] focused trauma therapy) or standard care + memory drilling
* complete a virtual memory assessment at entrance, exit, and three months post exit. This assessment will include questionnaires, interviews, and computerized and naturalistic memory tasks.

Conditions

  • Memory Deficit

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Memory Drilling

The experimental group will receive the additional intervention during their seven sessions with their care providers. The intervention is computerized "memory drills" training. This training includes the completion of a list learning memory task (HVLT) and then a PM practice task conducted on the computer at each session.

BEHAVIORAL

Compensatory Strategies

Participants learn compensatory strategies to assist with their memory performance. This involves both external strategies, such as calendering and setting alarms, and internal strategies, like imagery and mnemonics.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Processing Therapy

This is PTSD-targeted therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Delany Thrasher, PhD · University of California, Los Angeles

  • Kevin Bickart, MD, PhD · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-10-22
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2026-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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