NCT05334186

Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Telehealth-Delivered Inductive Reasoning Training Program for Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Florida · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study seeks to investigate 1) whether telehealth-delivered cognitive training in reasoning, adapted from the in-person reasoning training program from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) clinical trial, is perceived well by older adult participants and therefore potentially feasible for future larger studies, and 2) whether the older adult participants improve as a function of telehealth-delivered reasoning training. More specifically, it proposes to investigate participants' perceptions of and compliance with a telehealth-delivered cognitive training intervention in reasoning and whether that intervention is effective in improving reasoning compared to ACTIVE's traditional face-to-face training and no-contact control groups. Innovations of the proposed study are: (a) to provide important insight into the participants' perceptions of and compliance with a telehealth-based cognitive training intervention in reasoning for older adults that could potentially be adapted in the future for clinical settings, and (b) to shed light on the relative effectiveness of telehealth-based cognitive training in reasoning.

Detailed description

The proposed study is a pre-test post-test design exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of a telehealth-delivered inductive reasoning training program. The current study converts the widely disseminated in-person inductive reasoning training program from a large multisite clinical trial (ACTIVE) to a telehealth-delivered format. This study also benefits from the ability to compare telehealth delivered training to two propensity-matched comparison groups drawn from the ACTIVE sample of 2,802 adults aged 65 and older. The current study addresses whether telehealth-delivered training can achieve inductive reasoning improvements in older adults. In addition, because the delivery of the training is novel, and important aspect of this study is to assess how telehealth-delivered cognitive training in inductive reasoning is evaluated by older adult participants in terms of usefulness, ease of use \& learnability, interface quality, interaction quality, reliability, and satisfaction/anticipated future use of the telehealth intervention.

Conditions

• Reasoning Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telehealth Reasoning Training	The current study is explores the feasibility and preliminary relative effectiveness of a telehealth-delivered inductive reasoning intervention. The results of the study can help to provide insight on whether a telehealth-adapted reasoning training shows promise with older adults and can also be used to power future clinical trial studies to more definitively evaluate the effectiveness of telehealth delivered training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-25
• Primary completion: 2022-07-26
• Completion: 2022-07-26
• First posted: 2022-04-19
• Last updated: 2022-10-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States