NCT05393700

Effects of Early Sleep After Action Observation Therapy on Balance in Elderly

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Clinico Humanitas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study aims at investigating the effects of an early sleep window after Action Observation Therapy (AOT) on balance in elderly. Forty-five healthy-like elderly will be enrolled and randomized into 3 groups (AOT-sleep, AOT-control and Control) performing a 3-week AOT. AOT-sleep and AOT-control will be asked to watch video-clips showing motor contents before sleeping or at least 12 hours before sleeping, respectively, whereas Control will be asked to watch landascape video-clips before sleeping. Participants will be assessed before and after training and at 1 month follow-up for balance outcomes.

Conditions

• Old Age; Debility
• Balance; Distorted

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Action Observation Therapy	Action Observation Therapy implies the observation of video-clips representing motor tasks alone or followed by imagination and/or imitation of observed tasks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-15
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2023-06-15
• First posted: 2022-05-26
• Last updated: 2022-05-26