NCT01748032

Short-term Cognitive Training in Late-life Depression

The Effects of Short-term Cognitive Training on Cognition and Mood Symptoms in Late-life Depression: A Pilot Study

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the alternative uses training (AUT) and word association training (WAT) on cognitive functions and mood symptoms in late-life depression (LLD). The hypotheses are: 1. post-training cognitive performance will be superior to pre-training cognitive performance 2. post-training depressive symptomatology will be less severe as compared with pre-training clinical severity and 3. AUT group will show better post-training cognitive performance and improved mood symptoms when compared with the WAT group.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive training	20 minutes/day for 5 sequential working days

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2012-12-12
• Last updated: 2016-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada