NCT03336320

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-based Multidomain Intervention to Maintain Cognitive Function in Older Adults

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-based Multidomain Intervention With Connected Devices Made to Maintain Cognitive Function in Older Adults: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary purpose of the protocol is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a home-based (using information and communication technologies) intervention composed of nutritional counselling, exercise and cognitive training in older adults and its potential effect on various health outcomes.

Detailed description

Nutritional interventions, physical exercise and cognitive training have been used to delay cognitive decline during aging, with mixed results being obtained. However, few studies have investigated the health benefits of combining two or more of those interventions (ie, the so-called multidomain approach) in older adults. Intensive in-person multidomain intervention may difficultly be translated into the "real world" of healthcare systems because currently unpractical. Therefore, (cost-)effective interventions provided at distance and without the physical presence of healthcare professionals have the potential to be better translatable from research to real life. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have a crucial role to play in this context. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have investigated the effects of an ICT multidomain intervention on cognition in the elderly yet. Thus, the main objective of eMIND is to test the feasibility and acceptability of a 6-month, home-based multidomain intervention composed of nutritional counselling, exercise, and cognitive training provided using ICT solutions in people aged 65 or over. Secondary objectives include to obtaining preliminary data on the effects of the intervention on clinical outcomes in order to inform the design and sample size calculations of a future trial. eMIND has a mixed design, being composed of a randomized controlled trial (RCT, with two groups: the ICT multidomain intervention group vs Control Group) and a qualitative study (semi-structured interview to assess the easiness-of-use of the website).

Conditions

• Aged

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ICT Multidomain Intervention Training	Intervention composed of cognitive training (reasoning and memory training), nutritional counselling (advices to raise awareness about the importance of promoting a diversified and balanced diet), and physical exercises (program and monitoring of progression). The access of control group to the website will be limited to general information about eMIND study and links to the website of health authorities regarding to the healthy ageing topics.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-23
• Primary completion: 2019-01-31
• Completion: 2019-10-31
• First posted: 2017-11-08
• Last updated: 2025-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France