Clinical trial NCT05100849: Kinect-based Versus Tablet-based Cognitive Training: a Pilot Study With Psychiatric Patients
Official title: Efficacy of Kinect-based Versus Tablet-based Cognitive Training Through Simulations of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: a Pilot Study With Chronic Psychiatric Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychiatric Disorder
Keywords: Cognitive training
Simulations of instrumental activities of daily living
Tablet-based cognitive training
Kinect-based cognitive training
Psychiatric disorders
Lead sponsor: Universidade da Madeira
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Casa de Saúde Câmara Pestana
First posted: 2021-10-29
Enrollment: 18
Sex: FEMALE
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study aims to analyze which cognitive training experimental condition - Tablet versus Kinect - results in greater cognitive, mood, quality of life, and functional gains in a sample of chronic psychiatric patients.

Detailed description: Cognitive deficits are a nuclear feature of several psychiatric disorders, leading to a decrease in functional abilities and quality of life. Besides facilitating the inclusion of more ecologically valid stimuli and training tasks, technology-based cognitive training methods allow more dynamic interactions with the cognitive training content, which can result in an enhancement of patients' motivation and engagement in the therapeutic process. The modality of interaction with the cognitive training content may influence patients' response to cognitive training interventions. For instance, cognitive training through the tablet requires essentially hand movements (e.g., interaction with the training tasks by touching the correct stimuli), while cognitive training through the Kinect involves the performance of wide range movements (e.g., interaction with the training tasks by making specific "body" movements to select the correct stimuli). This study aims to analyze which cognitive training experimental condition - Tablet versus Kinect - results in greater cognitive, mood, quality of life, and functional gains in a sample of chronic psychiatric patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Psychiatric diagnosis;
* Maximum age: 75 years old;
* Relatively preserved language abilities (expressive and receptive language);
* Being able to read and write;
* Having no motor limitations;
* Having no medical history of neurological conditions (e.g., stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, etc.)
* Preserved visual and auditory acuity;

Exclusion Criteria:

* Experiencing an acute psychiatric episode.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) (Cognitive screening)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) (Executive functions screening)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test (TP) (Sustained and selective attention)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) (Visuospatial skills and visual memory)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Symbol Search and Coding (WAIS-III) (Processing speed)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Verbal Fluency Tests (semantic and phonemic) (Executive Functions)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) (Verbal Memory)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) (Depressive symptomatology)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: World Health Organization Quality of Life - Bref (WHOQOL-Bref) (Quality of life)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
measure: Adults and Older Adults Functional Assessment Inventory (IAFAI)
timeFrame: Baseline (1 week before the beginning of the intervention), post-intervention (7 weeks) and follow-up (3-months)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Funchal
country: Portugal
facility: Casa de Saúde Câmara Pestana
state: São Gonçalo
Study officials:
References:
citation: Camara J, Ferreira L, Faria AL, Vilar M, Bermudez I Badia S. Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Impact of Full-Body Interaction on Computerized Cognitive Training Based on Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial with Chronic Psychiatric Inpatients. Games Health J. 2022 Oct 11. doi: 10.1089/g4h.2021.0228. Online ahead of print.