NCT04473235

Better Memory With Literacy Acquisition Later in Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to discover whether acquiring basic-literacy in adulthood can improve episodic memory and brain structural and functional connectivity. In a collaborative project between Brazil and USA, the investigators will use a randomized controlled trial approach to leverage the level of evidence of the benefits of basic adult-education as a possible cognitive reserve builder. If successful, the study's findings will be important in shaping policies targeting increasing access to late-life education to reduce dementia risk.

Conditions

• Memory Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Literacy training	Teaching adults how to read and write using the analytical and phonemic method
BEHAVIORAL	Non-Literacy training	Attending classes in geography, history, sciences, without receiving the specific training in literacy

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-11
• Primary completion: 2022-12-17
• Completion: 2022-12-17
• First posted: 2020-07-16
• Last updated: 2024-07-16
• Results posted: 2024-07-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil