Pilot Testing of Go and Pair Go Game for Brain Health in US: Understanding Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impacts

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Potential Efficacy of Cognitive Intervention Programs Using Go and Pair Go in US Older Adults - Go and Pair Go game pilot testing in US

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000057142

Enrollment

Registered

2025-03-05

Start date

2025-03-24

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-09-14

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Conditions

Community-dwelling older adults

Interventions

The participants will attend a Go program once a week for 90 minutes for a total of 12 sessions. Sessions comprise of lectures on basic rules, solving Go exercises, and playing Go. The participants w

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Community-dwelling older adults aged 65 years or older 2. Activity of daily livng independent 3. Not having any previous experience in playing Go

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Having medical and psychiatric disorders affecting cognitive function and mental health status 2. Having diagnosis of dementia 3. Adults unable to consent 4. Individuals who do not understand English

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Feasibility and acceptability of the programs Feasibility: attendance rate, reasons for absence, dropout rate, reasons for drop out, program satisfaction, program feedback Acceptability: Likelihood of continuing Go/Pair Go, Likelihood of recommending Go/Pair Go to family or friends, perceived usefulness of Go/Pair Go	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Cognitive function: Corsi Block-Tapping Test, Digit Span Test, Trail Making Test, Verbal Fluency Test, Mini-Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment Mental health: the Geriatric Depression Scale, The University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, The Control, Autonomy, Self-realization, and Pleasure questionnaire, the WHO-5 Well-being Index, Memory complaints Social network: Lubben Social Network Scale-6, the number of people they interacted with outside of the program	—

Measure

Time frame

Cognitive function: Corsi Block-Tapping Test, Digit Span Test, Trail Making Test, Verbal Fluency Test, Mini-Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment Mental health: the Geriatric Depression Scale, The University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, The Control, Autonomy, Self-realization, and Pleasure questionnaire, the WHO-5 Well-being Index, Memory complaints Social network: Lubben Social Network Scale-6, the number of people they interacted with outside of the program

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Countries

North America

Contacts

Public ContactAi Iizuka

The University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Collage of Public Health

ai-yasunaga@uiowa.edu319-335-2661

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Sep 19, 2026