NCT03073954

Working Memory Training in COPD Patients: the Cogtrain-Trial

The Feasibility of Working Memory Training in COPD Patients and the Efficacy on Cognitive Performance, Self-Control and Stress Response

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

General cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. Domain-specific cognitive impairments include deficits in domains such as cognitive flexibility, verbal memory, working memory, planning, and psychomotor speed; which in general are associated with poor health behaviours, such as infrequent exercising and poor diet. Additional cognitive training may reverse these effects. Recent evidence suggests that working memory training is linked to self-control and, indirectly, to improved lifestyle behaviour including increased physical activity. The investigators hypothesise that enhancing cognitive performance through administering specific working memory training not only improves cognitive function but that it facilitates better adherence to a more active lifestyle and a healthier diet in COPD patients.

Conditions

• COPD
• Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Working memory training	The working memory intervention training programme consists of a domain-general cognitive working memory training programme. One training session will take 20 to 30 minutes, and participants will have to complete approximately 40 cognitive training sessions. The sham treatment is the same as the intervention training however it does not increase in difficulty. Participants are presented with the same task at the same level of difficulty over and over again. Thus a training effect is not expected.
BEHAVIORAL	Standardised healthy lifestyle coaching	Participants will receive standardised healthy living coaching focusing on healthy diet and daily physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2017-03-08
• Last updated: 2022-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands