Feasibility of a digital behavioural activation intervention for people with dementia

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00031363

Enrollment

Registered

2023-02-27

Start date

2023-03-13

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

F00

Interventions

Group 1: Patients in the gerontopsychiatric wards of the University Clinic for Pychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Ev. Klinikum Bethel Bielefeld who have dementia (criteria for all-cause dementia) take

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Dementia diagnosis: ICD-10 F00-F03 (not applicable for control group) good proficiency in spoken and written German

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Participation in another research project within the last month, if an influence on the results of this research has to be assumed.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
System Usability Scale (end of game session; second assessment) user parameters, mood (SAM valence), subset of items from System Usability Scale (after each condition within the game session; second assessment)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Neuropsychological data (neuropsychological test; first assessment): General cognitive functioning: • Mini Mental Status Test (Folstein et al. 1975) Memory: • Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (Helmstaedter und Durwen 1990; Schmidt 1996) • Consortium to Establish A Registry for Alzheimer's Disease: Constructional Praxis II (Morris et al. 1989) Semantic memory: • Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al. 2001) • CERAD: Animal Names (Morris et al. 1989) Attention: • Trail Making Test A (Reitan 1992) • Word span (Helmstaedter und Durwen 1990) • Digit span forward (Wechsler 2008) Executive functioning: • Trail Making Test B (Reitan 1992) • Formal lexical (H-/T-words) and semantic-categorical (supermarket articles) Category change (Aschenbrenner et al. 2000) • Word fluency (Aschenbrenner et al. 2000) • DemTect: number transcoding (Kalbe et al. 2004) Working Memory: • Digit span backward (Wechsler 2008) Visual construction: • Constructional praxis I (Morris et al. 1989) • Clock drawing test (Schröder et al. 1999) Depressive symptoms: • Geriatric depression scale (Gauggel und Birkner 1999)	—

Measure

Time frame

Neuropsychological data (neuropsychological test; first assessment): General cognitive functioning: • Mini Mental Status Test (Folstein et al. 1975) Memory: • Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (Helmstaedter und Durwen 1990; Schmidt 1996) • Consortium to Establish A Registry for Alzheimer's Disease: Constructional Praxis II (Morris et al. 1989) Semantic memory: • Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al. 2001) • CERAD: Animal Names (Morris et al. 1989) Attention: • Trail Making Test A (Reitan 1992) • Word span (Helmstaedter und Durwen 1990) • Digit span forward (Wechsler 2008) Executive functioning: • Trail Making Test B (Reitan 1992) • Formal lexical (H-/T-words) and semantic-categorical (supermarket articles) Category change (Aschenbrenner et al. 2000) • Word fluency (Aschenbrenner et al. 2000) • DemTect: number transcoding (Kalbe et al. 2004) Working Memory: • Digit span backward (Wechsler 2008) Visual construction: • Constructional praxis I (Morris et al. 1989) • Clock drawing test (Schröder et al. 1999) Depressive symptoms: • Geriatric depression scale (Gauggel und Birkner 1999)

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactSören Brähmer

EvKB, Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie

soeren.braehmer@evkb.de+490521 772 78022

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026