Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Telehealth-Delivered Inductive Reasoning Training Program for Older Adults
Condition: Reasoning Training
Study type: Interventional

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.
    

Intervention name(s): Telehealth Reasoning Training
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): 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.
Intervention model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Other