healthy older adults.
Conditions
Interventions
The participants of this study were randomly divided into 4 groups: experimental group that received three training sessions in working memory, experimental group that received six training sessions i
Behavioural
Other
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Sponsors
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Capes
Departamento de Neurologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
Eligibility
Age
60 Years to 75 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: to be between 60 and 75 years of age, be female or male, to be between 4 and 11 years of schooling, to have expected performance for their age and schooling in cognitive screening tests (being considered an elderly person with preserved cognition), have attended all training sessions, and have performed all assessments.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: have a diagnosis of neurological or psychiatric disorders, have uncontrolled chronic diseases, have signs of depression or anxiety (scores> 5 on the Geriatric Depression Scale and / or> 9 on the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory), have functional limitations In the Functional Activities Questionnaire of Pfeffer> 1), there is presence of sensory and / or motor limitation that may hinder participation in training.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Experiment group participants are expected to increase their performance in the Categorization Work Memory Test Span. As long as the active control group maintains its performance in this test. It is also expected that the experimental group that performed 6 training sessions shows superior performance in the Categorization Work Memory Test Span than the experimental group that did 3 training sessions.;Number of losses throughout the study: 208 older adults people were recruted by telephone. 63 did not want to participate in the study or did not meet the criteria for inclusion. 18 did not attend all the training sessions, 7 did not make all the evaluations, leaving 120 seniors. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Backward Digit Span task, Letter Number Sequencing, and Spatial Span Indirect Search Symbols, Forward Digit Span task, Spatial Span direct order, Stroop test, and Test of Matrix. The experimental group is expected to improve on these variables after the training sessions. It is also expected that the experimental group that performed 6 training sessions showed a higher performance in these tests when compared to the experimental group of 3 sessions. Control groups are expected to maintain performance for these tests. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactPaula Brum
Departamento de Neurologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed