NCT06528379

Physical Activity Component of the Greek Interventional Geriatric Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (GINGER)

Physical Activity Component of the Greek Interventional Geriatric Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (GINGER): Study Protocol and Feasibility of the Assessment

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Patras · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Greek Interventional Geriatric Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (GINGER) is a six-month multimodal, multicenter study aimed at people with Subjective Cognitive Impairement (SCI). One of the GINGER's interventional components is the Physcial Activity (PA) component, coordinated by the University of Patras. This PA component's scope is to determine whether an enhanced individualized physical exercise intervention programme can improve cognitive changes, physical function, quality of life and wellbeing in people with subjective cognitive decline.

Conditions

• People With Subjective Cognitive Impairement (SCI)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Activity	The exercise programme is a 6-month progressive tailored-based exercise regime comprising * aerobic exercises (40-60%) * resistance exercises (20-40%) * balance with resistance exercises (20%) . This is peformed 3 times weekly, it is tailored to each individual but delivered in a small group-based manner. Two sessions are supervised by physiotherapist /exercise scientist and one session is unsupervised, home-based.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-20
• Primary completion: 2026-09-30
• Completion: 2026-09-30
• First posted: 2024-07-30
• Last updated: 2024-08-02

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Greece