Touch-screen video game technology on cognitive and behavioral symptoms for community-living older adults with mild to moderate dementia

Computer assisted intervention using touch-screen video game technology on cognitive and behavioral symptoms for community-living older adults with mild to moderate dementia

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12613000942752

Enrollment

164

Registered

2013-08-26

Start date

2013-10-02

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

With the substantial increase of dementia in older adults, computer assisted intervention using touch-screen video game technology would be a novel and potential alternative intervention for older people with mild to moderate dementia in enhancing cognitive function and reducing behavioural and psychological symptoms, therefore reducing nursing / healthcare worker loads. The information obtained will promote the awareness to health professionals that touch-screen video game training is a useful cognitive and behaviour intervention in older people with mild to moderate dementia and could be incorporated as part of routine programs amongst the elderly in both community care and hospital settings in Hong Kong.

Interventions

Subjects assigned to the intervention group will be invited to participate in the computer assisted intervention 2 days a week over an 8 week period (45 minutes per session) provided by a trained research assistant. A selection of touch-screen video games will be used, including Able-X (mosquito splat), Brain Gym (mahjong flip and It’s going to rain), fun discovery and let’s find it etc.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

60 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Community-living older adults aged 60 years and above will be screened using Chinese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (CMMSE). Those who score between 13 and 23 will be further clinically adjudicated by a panel of clinical experts. Criteria for a diagnosis of dementia will be based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Severity of dementia will be determined using Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR). Only subjects with mild to moderate dementia (CDR 1 or 2) will be invited to participate.

Exclusion criteria

Subjects will be excluded if they have medical conditions severe enough to affect the patient’s ability to complete the treatment course and/or follow-up.

Outcome results