DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04248.v3
title: Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE), United States, 1999-2001
title: Version 3

description: The data producers have recompiled the ACTIVE data into a new study which is available as of December 2023, ICPSR 38821; data users should plan to use study 38821 instead.
ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and
Vital Elderly), 1999-2001 [United States] was a multisite randomized
controlled trial conducted at six field sites with New England
Research Institutes (NERI) as the coordinating center. The field sites
included the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hebrew Rehabilitation
Center for the Aged in Boston, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Pennsylvania State University, and the
University of Florida/Wayne State University (Detroit). The primary
aim of the trial was to test the effects of three distinct cognitive
interventions -- previously found to be successful in improving
elders' performance on basic measures of cognition under laboratory or
small-scale field conditions -- on measures of cognitively demanding
daily activities. Trainings consisted of an initial series of ten group
sessions followed by four-session booster trainings at one and three
years. The three cognitive interventions focused on memory, executive
reasoning, and speed of processing. The design included a no-contact
control group. Participants were assessed at baseline, immediately
after training, and annually thereafter. A total of 2,832 older adults
were enrolled in the trial, and 2,802 were included in the
analytical sample. Twenty-six percent of the participants were
African American.
description: The sample consisted of 2,832 persons aged 65 to 94
recruited from 6 metropolitan areas in the United States. The
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) recruited participants from
residents of Jefferson County, Alabama, who were licensed to drive or who
possessed nondriver ID cards issued through the Alabama Department of
Public Safety, and they recruited from UAB eye clinics. The Hebrew
Rehabilitation Center for the Aged (HRCA) in Boston, Massachusetts, recruited from
congregate and senior housing sites, senior centers, and a registry of
volunteers for aging research at the Harvard Cooperative Program on
Aging. Indiana University recruited clients of the Community Centers
of Indianapolis and through local churches and senior organizations.
Johns Hopkins University recruited from senior centers, churches,
senior housing, and senior organizations in the Baltimore, Maryland, metropolitan
area and in Cumberland, Maryland. Pennsylvania State University recruited
from the enrollment files of a state-funded pharmaceutical assistance
program for low-income elders, called PACE. And Wayne State University
recruited from community organizations, churches, and senior housing
in metropolitan Detroit, as well as from state of Michigan driver registration
lists. The study design also included a no-contact control group.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Form 2 Screener
DS2: Form 3 Baseline Individual Assessment, Part 1
DS3: Form 4 Baseline Individual Assessment, Part 2
DS4: Form 310 HVLT Intrusion/Perseveration Errors
DS5: Form 311 Word Series
DS6: Form 312 HVLT Recognition
DS7: Form 313 UFOV
DS8: Form 314 CRT
DS9: Form 410 PT Individual Assessment
DS10: Form 411 Digit Symbol Substitution and Digit Symbol Copy Data Coding Form
DS11: Form 415 AN1 Individual Assessment, Part 1
DS12: Form 420 AN1 Individual Assessment, Part 2
DS13: Form 422 OTDL
DS14: Form 5 Take-Home
DS15: Form 510 Post-Test Take-Home
DS16: Form 611a AN3 AVLT
DS17: Form 611b AN5 AVLT
DS18: Form 611c AN1 AVLT
DS19: Form 611d AN2 AVLT
DS20: Form 612 Letter Series
DS21: Form 613 AVLT Recognition
DS22: Form 614 Letter Series
DS23: Form 615a AN3 Rivermead
DS24: Form 615b AN5 Rivermead
DS25: Form 616 Vocabulary
DS26: Form 617 EPT
DS27: Form 618 Medication Audit
DS28: Form 619 AVLT Intrusion/Perseveration Errors
DS29: Form 700 AN1 Abbreviated Battery
DS30: Form 705 AN2 Abbreviated Battery
DS31: Form 706a AN3 Abbreviated Battery
DS32: Form 706b AN5 Abbreviated Battery
DS33: Form 710 AN1 and AN2 Abbreviated Battery, Level 2
DS34: Form 713 AN3 Abbreviated Battery, Level 2
DS35: Form 714 AN5 Abbreviated Battery, Level 2
DS36: Form 717 Take-Home EPT
DS37: Form 800 AN2 Individual Assessment, Part 1
DS38: Form 803 AN3 Individual Assessment, Part 1
DS39: Form 804 AN5 Individual Assessment, Part 1
DS40: Form 810 AN2 Individual Assessment, Part 2
DS41: Form 813 AN3 Individual Assessment, Part 2
DS42: Form 814 AN5 Individual Assessment, Part 2
DS43: Analysis Dataset
description: Persons 65 and older who were noninstitutionalized, but
were at risk of loss of functional independence.
description: The following is a list of acronyms used in the
titles of many of the 34 data parts in this collection:

AN1 -- 1st Annual Post-Test
AN2 -- 2nd Annual Post-Test
AVLT -- Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
BL AVLT -- Baseline Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
CRT -- Complex Reaction Time
EPT -- Everyday Problems Test
HVLT -- Hopkins Verbal Learning Test
OTDL -- Observed Tasks of Daily Living
PAN1 -- 1st Annual Post-Test
PT -- Post-Test
PT AVLT -- Post-Test Baseline Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
Rivermead -- Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test
UFOV -- Useful Field of VisionThe Rey AVLT used in this data collection is a subset of the full Rey test.Only a particular subset of the Rivermead
Behavioral Memory Test was used for ACTIVE.The 10th Annual Post-Test of the ACTIVE study is also available from ICPSR (ICPSR 36036). Included in ICPSR 36036 is a newer version of the Analysis Dataset which includes data from the 10th Annual Post-Test as well as data from the previous tests. Users are advised that the ICPSR 36036 version of the Analysis Dataset may include updates to the earlier data and should consider using the newer version of this file for analyses.The title of this collection has been edited to conform to current metadata standards.Please note that there are some discrepancies in this collection that we are working to correct: the data files and the codebook for dataset 12 do not match; also, the codebook for dataset 10 appears to be duplicated. Users should contact icpsr-nacda@umich.edu if they discover additional errors.