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UnknownNCT00256425
Cognitive Rehabilitation of Glioma Patients
Cognitive Rehabilitation of Glioma Patients: a Prospective, Randomized Study
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 140 (actual)
- Sponsor
- UMC Utrecht · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether cognitive rehabilitation is effective in patients with gliomas (brain tumour), by comparing direct and follow-up neuropsychological functioning and quality of life of the experimental group to the control group.
Detailed description
The majority of patients with (low-grade) glioma exhibit cognitive symptoms and objective deficits, which have a sustained, negative impact on daily functioning and quality of life. Adult patients with a low-grade glioma, either histologically proven, or suspected (1), as well as adult anaplastic glioma patients with favorable prognostic factors (2), who are clinically stable for at least 6 months, will be recruited from 9 hospitals in the Netherlands. Consenting patients with both subjective cognitive symptoms and objective deficits will be randomized to either the cognitive rehabilitation program (N = 75) or a "waiting-list" control group (N = 75). Upon completion of the study, those patients assigned to the control group will be given the opportunity to undergo the cognitive rehabilitation program. The cognitive rehabilitation program incorporates both retraining of impaired cognitive functions, and teaching of compensatory strategies. Rehabilitation will be directed towards attention, memory and executive functioning. The intervention will consist of 6 weekly, individual, 2-hour sessions plus two hours of homework. To evaluate the efficacy of the rehabilitation program, objective neuropsychological functioning, self-reported cognitive symptoms and health-related quality of life will be assessed before rehabilitation, directly following rehabilitation, and at 6-month follow-up.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Cognitive rehabilitation |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2003-10-01
- Completion
- 2007-09-01
- First posted
- 2005-11-21
- Last updated
- 2008-03-21
Locations
9 sites across 1 country: Netherlands
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00256425. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.