DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04248.v1
title: ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly), 1999-2001 [United States]
title: Version 1

description: 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: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks.; Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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: 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 Vision;  
 The 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.
description: Persons 65 and older who were noninstitutionalized, but were at risk of loss of functional independence.
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.