NCT02922569

Home-Based, Online, Mindfulness and Cognitive Training for Soldiers and Veterans With TBI

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Posit Science Corporation · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a parallel arm, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of an experimental software program designed to improve cognitive functions versus a computer-based software control. Both the study and the software being investigated meet the criteria of Non-Significant Risk.

Detailed description

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of combination of mindfulness training (MT) and adaptive cognitive training (CT) on the cognitive abilities, functional status and quality of life of soldiers and veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI, also referred to as a concussion, or blast exposure), as compared to a computer-based control.

Conditions

• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Computerized Plasticity-Based Adaptive Cognitive Training	Thirty minutes of training on computerized exercises that targets processing speed, memory and attention.
OTHER	Commercially available computerized training	Thirty minutes of training on computerized, casual video games.
OTHER	Mindfulness Training	Ten minutes of using an online training course that teaches skills to help overcome ongoing life stressors.
OTHER	Traumatic Brain Injury Information Session	Ten minutes of viewing traumatic brain injury related news, information, and programs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-31
• Primary completion: 2020-08-30
• Completion: 2020-09-14
• First posted: 2016-10-04
• Last updated: 2025-12-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States