Cognitive Emotional Stimulation Program (CESP) for memory improvement in older community-dwelling adults (Programa de Estimulación Cognitiva Emocional [PECE] para la Mejora de la Memoria de Personas Mayores que Viven en la Comunidad)

Six-year effects of the time-extended stimulation program on everyday memory in healthy older persons: a randomized controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN46109513

Enrollment

1756

Registered

2014-11-06

Start date

2006-01-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2016-10-17

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Conditions

Memory improvement in older community-dwelling adults Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

A two-group (experimental and control) randomized controlled procedure with a 2:1 allocation ratio was carried out, combined with stratified randomization by age, sex and MMSE scores. The control gro

and the second phase analyzed the effect of the 160 sessions of training received only by the experimental group. Added 29/09/2015: COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL STIMULATION PROGRAM Subdomains included in t

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 65 years or over 2. Senior retired community-dwelling persons living independently

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Self-reported diagnoses of Alzheimer?s disease 2. Severe sensory impairment (sight and/or hearing) 3. Moderate dependence (need help to perform daily life activities more than twice a day) 4. Unavailability during the study period

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Three assessments were performed: at baseline; after 32 training sessions (follow-up 1); and a final evaluation of both groups in year 6 (follow-up 2).In the case of the control group, follow-up 1 took place after 32 sessions at the 11th week. In the case of the experimental group, follow-up 1 occured after 32 sessions in 32 weeks. A number of instruments were used to evaluate the psychological effects of the CESP. 1. The Mini-Mental Cognitive Examination (MEC-35) test, the Spanish adaptation (Lobo et al., 1979, 1987) of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE, 35 items: Folstein et al., 1975), was used to measure cognitive impairment, which explores orientation, memory, attention, language, calculation and some constructive praxias. The MMSE is widely used to quantify intellectual deterioration and its progression over time, and is particularly useful in evaluating the elderly. It can be used repeatedly and thus can document an individual?s response to training or treatment. The MMSE has an 84.6% sensitivity and an 82% specificity (Saz & Lobo, 1993). 2. Memory was evaluated through a standardized measure of both objective (Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test, RBMT) and subjective memory (Memory Failures Everyday, MFE). The RBMT is a battery designed to tap the participant?s memory in everyday tasks. There is evidence that favours the use of the RBMT in older adults (Wilson, Cockburn, Baddeley, & Hiorns, 1985) and for neuropsychological assessment of memory impairment (Cockburn, 1996). The RBMT assesses different types of memory such as associative memory, prospective memory, visual memory, verbal memory, topographic memory, control, and recognition strategies, producing a global score from 0 to 12 points. A Spanish version of the RBMT has been used and validated with the Wechsler Memory Scale (Sánchez & García, 1992; Alonso & Prieto, 2004). 3. The Memory Failures Everyday (MFE) test (Sunderland, Harris, & Gleave, 1984) has 28 items relating to daily life situatio	—

Measure

Time frame

Three assessments were performed: at baseline; after 32 training sessions (follow-up 1); and a final evaluation of both groups in year 6 (follow-up 2).In the case of the control group, follow-up 1 took place after 32 sessions at the 11th week. In the case of the experimental group, follow-up 1 occured after 32 sessions in 32 weeks. A number of instruments were used to evaluate the psychological effects of the CESP. 1. The Mini-Mental Cognitive Examination (MEC-35) test, the Spanish adaptation (Lobo et al., 1979, 1987) of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE, 35 items: Folstein et al., 1975), was used to measure cognitive impairment, which explores orientation, memory, attention, language, calculation and some constructive praxias. The MMSE is widely used to quantify intellectual deterioration and its progression over time, and is particularly useful in evaluating the elderly. It can be used repeatedly and thus can document an individual?s response to training or treatment. The MMSE has an 84.6% sensitivity and an 82% specificity (Saz & Lobo, 1993). 2. Memory was evaluated through a standardized measure of both objective (Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test, RBMT) and subjective memory (Memory Failures Everyday, MFE). The RBMT is a battery designed to tap the participant?s memory in everyday tasks. There is evidence that favours the use of the RBMT in older adults (Wilson, Cockburn, Baddeley, & Hiorns, 1985) and for neuropsychological assessment of memory impairment (Cockburn, 1996). The RBMT assesses different types of memory such as associative memory, prospective memory, visual memory, verbal memory, topographic memory, control, and recognition strategies, producing a global score from 0 to 12 points. A Spanish version of the RBMT has been used and validated with the Wechsler Memory Scale (Sánchez & García, 1992; Alonso & Prieto, 2004). 3. The Memory Failures Everyday (MFE) test (Sunderland, Harris, & Gleave, 1984) has 28 items relating to daily life situatio

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
A final evaluation of both groups in year 6 (follow-up 2). follow-up 2 took place after the last 6th year, after the experimental group recieves 162 refresher sessions in 162 weeks	—

Countries

Spain

Outcome results

None listed

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