NCT04919005

Virtual Environment to Aid Cognitive Stimulation of Elderly People With Early Alzheimer's

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Mogi das Cruzes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research was carried out with the objective of verifying the possibility of intervention through cognitive training protocols to assist in the stimulation of neurons and to delay the degradation resulting from Alzheimer's disease in its initial phase. The specific objective of this research was to develop and validate a virtual environment of games (called SorrisoTur) that allows the intervention of cognitive training.

Detailed description

SorrisoTur encompasses cognitive training concepts and protocols in playful situations, which were coded in the form of 2D mini-games that are run on a computer connected to the Web, and designed to stimulate cognitive domains, such as memory, executive functions, spatial-visual skills, language (expression, comprehension, reading, and writing) and personality/behavior. For the comparison of results, three groups were created; one group of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease at an early stage, one group formed by healthy elderly, and another group with young people and applied Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults (WAIS-III) before and after of interventions with the games.

Conditions

• Alzheimer Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Environment	The Virtual Environment was called SorrisoTur and consists of 10 mini-games with difficulty levels in a limited number of cities and mini-games distributed in a thematic scenario of the map of Brazil. The virtual environment consists of the cognitive training mini-games within a theme for all screens, mini-games, and information. The interventions with the Virtual Environment were administered in periods of one hour, twice a week, for a month.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-30
• Completion: 2017-07-20
• First posted: 2021-06-09
• Last updated: 2021-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil