NCT05764421

Motor-cognitive Interventions Are Effective in Improving Cognitive Function in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive impairment--a Chinese Sample

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jinxuan Cheng · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a syndrome that occurs in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer, and early intervention can be effective in preventing Alzheimer, but further research is needed on intervention methods. In order to identify interventions that are more suitable for Chinese characteristics and to investigate the effects of a motor-cognitive intervention on the cognitive function of older adults with MCI, investigators screened 103 community-dwelling older adults with MCI aged 65 years and older in Qingdao, Shandong, China, and divided them into an intervention group and a control group, and administered a motor-cognitive intervention to the intervention group for 12 weeks. Investigators assessed the cognitive abilities of MCI participants using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). There were no demographic differences between the intervention and control groups. Investigators found that the cognitive abilities of the intervention group were significantly improved at the end of the intervention as well as at the end of the follow-up compared to the control group. The results of the current study suggest that the motor-cognitive intervention investigators used significantly improved cognitive function in older adults with MCI and was easy for older adults to master, and that it was a good intervention for cognitive function in older adults with MCI in the Chinese community.

Conditions

• MCI

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	motor-cognitive intervention	The intervention included physical activity and integrated cognitive training. The training was conducted in three sessions. The first session was a warm-up and wake-up preparation, in which participants massaged facial acupoints in a seated position to light music. In the middle phase of aerobic exercise, participants raised their legs in a standing position and performed mental exercises to fast-paced music. Session 1: tapping the five fingers of each hand in turn; Section 2: The thumb of both hands in turn to tap the rest of the fingers; Third section: hands five fingers cross fist; Section 4: The five fingers of both hands are stretched out in turn, and then retracted in turn. The final session was a relaxation session in which participants performed inspiratory and expiratory exercises to light music. The integrated cognitive training consisted of 15 minutes of attention training, 15 minutes of memory training, and 15 minutes of executive function training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-02-01
• Completion: 2021-02-01
• First posted: 2023-03-10
• Last updated: 2023-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China