COMPuter-assisted Self-training to Improve EXecutive Function

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-100
SponsorBispebjerg Hospital

About this trial

This project explores the effects of specialized computer-based cognitive rehabilitation (CBCR) targeting executive functions in three groups of patients: Stroke, Cardiac Arrest and Parkinson's Disease. The effect of specialized CBCR is compared to generally cognitively stimulating activities on a computer

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

A diagnose of stroke, cardiac arrest or Parkinson's disease.

Aged 18 years or older.

Impaired working memory measured with CABPad working memory test, cut off for inclusion: 5 symbols or less backwards

Computer and internet access at home.

Disqualifiers

Informed consent not provided

Other neurological or psychiatric disease which is expected to influence the patient's ability to participate in the trial according to the investigator

Not able to participate according to investigator

Patients with massive anosognosia for executive dysfunction or patients with no subjective feeling of executive dysfunction (Patient sustains total denial of executive symptoms over time)

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation (CBCR)

    Behavioral

    CBCR are software-programmes for computers which are clinically developed for rehabilitation of various cognitive functions.

  • General computer-based cognitive stimulation

    Behavioral

    For this trial we have developed a webpage for general cognitive stimulation, which is designed to provide general computer-based cognitive stimulation.

Treatment groups

307 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Specific computer-based cognitive rehabilitationExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: General computer-based cognitive stimulationActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

CABPad Working Memory Test

Test of working memory. The higher score the better (theoretically infinite score)

Time frame
After the end of the intervention (8 weeks after baseline)

Secondary outcomes

1

CABPad Working Memory Test - 3 months follow-up

Test of working memory. The higher score the better (theoretically infinite score)

Time frame
At follow-up visit 3 months after end of intervention
2

Minimum Data Set-Home Care- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (MDS-HC-IADL)

Questionnaire concerning activities of daily living. 0-3 points on an 8-item scale, the fewer points the better.

Time frame
At follow-up visit 3 months after the end of the intervention
3

Trail Making A

Test of processing speed and visual attention. The lower score the better (theoretically infinite score)

Time frame
Directly after the intervention, eight weeks after inclusion
4

Trail Making A

Test of processing speed and visual attention. The lower score the better (theoretically infinite score)

Time frame
At follow-up visit 3 months after the end of the intervention

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Bispebjerg Hospital

Lead sponsor

Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Collaborator

University of Glasgow

Collaborator

University of Basel

Collaborator

Copenhagen Trial Unit, Center for Clinical Intervention Research

Collaborator

Hjernesagen

Collaborator

Göteborg University

Collaborator

Aalborg University Hospital

Collaborator

Neurorehabilitering - Kbh, City of Copenhagen

Collaborator