Clinical trial NCT05444114: What Makes People Better at Describing Photographs?
Official title: What Makes People Better at Describing Photographs?
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy Aging
Keywords: speech production
cognitive aging
Lead sponsor: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2022-07-05
Enrollment: 182
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants are randomly assigned to one of two conditions before performing a picture description task from which we measure speech fluency in several ways
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to provide verbal descriptions of photographs. Participants will perform a brief mental exercise, then see three photographs with instructions to describe each thoroughly. Participants will also complete several other surveys and measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how different variables relate to speech production.

Detailed description: This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the the ability to provide verbal descriptions of photographs. Adult participants ages 18-30 and 65-80 will participate in videoconference calls during which they perform a brief mental exercise, then see three photographs with instructions to describe each thoroughly. Descriptions are to be 30 to 60 seconds in length and are audio recorded for later scoring. Participants will also complete several other surveys and measures, including some about anxiety, mindfulness, vocabulary, and demographics. Participation will take approximately 40 to 60 minutes. Collected data will be de-identified, and the aggregate data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and the mental exercise performed before the study relate to peoples' speech production performance.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* fluent speakers of English
* ages 18-30 or ages 65-80

Exclusion Criteria:

* non-fluent speakers of English
* people who are not ages 18-30 or ages 65-80

Primary outcomes:
measure: Speech Rate
timeFrame: During the 40 to 60 minute experimental session
measure: Speech Fillers Mid-Phrase
timeFrame: During the 40 to 60 minute experimental session
measure: Speech Fillers Other
timeFrame: During the 40 to 60 minute experimental session
measure: Repairs Plus False Starts
timeFrame: During the 40 to 60 minute experimental session
measure: Repetitions
timeFrame: During the 40 to 60 minute experimental session
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Colorado Springs
country: United States
facility: UCCS
state: Colorado
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
name: Lori James, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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