NCT03602768

Evaluation of the Online Memory & Aging Program and Online Goal Management Training

Evaluation of Online Cognitive Fitness Programs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 800 (actual)
• Sponsor: Baycrest · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current study is designed to test the effectiveness of online programs for memory and executive functions in healthy aging. The investigators are testing online adaptations of two cognitive interventions that have been extensively studied, validated, and implemented in clinical settings: The Memory \& Aging Program (MAP) targets normal memory change in healthy aging, and Goal Management Training (GMT) targets executive functioning deficits in a variety of cognitive and neurological conditions including healthy aging. Both programs combine psycho-education, targeted skills training and clinical support to empower participants with knowledge and strategies to harness their cognitive faculties. These programs are being tested against a waitlist control as well as against a commercial/research brain training platform (Cambridge Brain Sciences) in a design comparing performance on memory and executive functioning measures before and after the interventions/controls. The main hypothesis is that MAP will lead to memory-specific improvements above control conditions, whereas GMT will lead to greater improvements in measures of executive functions relative to controls.

Conditions

• Aging
• Cognitive Decline

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Goal Management Training	Pre-recorded videos and games combine psycho-education, targeted skills training, and mindfulness practice to teach a system where participants can take control of their attention and cognitive faculties.
BEHAVIORAL	Memory & Aging Program	Pre-recorded videos and activities combine psycho-education, memory strategy training, and social support to educate about normal memory change in aging, normalize the experience of participants going through it, and equip them to handle age-related memory change.
BEHAVIORAL	Cambridge Brain Sciences	Commercial brain training software available for subscription to the general public and for research studies.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-18
• Primary completion: 2020-08-30
• Completion: 2020-08-30
• First posted: 2018-07-27
• Last updated: 2021-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada