Assessing and Improving the Durability of Compensatory Cognitive Training for Older Veterans

Conditions

• Mild Cognitive Impairment

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

55 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Motivationally-Enhanced Compensatory Cognitive Training (ME-CCT) Booster Modules — BEHAVIORAL
  ME-CCT is a traditionally a manualized group-based behavioral intervention (8 weeks, 2 hours per week) designed to improve cognitive and everyday functioning in patients with MCI. Our booster modules will be shortened and distilled from ME-CCT using the IM Adapt protocol (and thus will not be new information but rather 'reminder' content) for a personalized four-session sequence of booster training targeted toward specific everyday functional needs of individual participants.
• Treatment As Usual — OTHER
  Treatment for MCI is generally managed by Primary Care or Neurology. Participants will continue to receive their usual care with their current providers. With no effective pharmacological treatment known for persons with MCI, providers tend to focus on encouraging a healthy lifestyle, prevention and management of modifiable risk factors for cognitive impairment, and treatment of behavioral and psychiatric symptoms.

Study Details

Veterans have numerous risk factors (e.g., PTSD, TBI, cerebrovascular problems) for later-life cognitive and functional decline. Evidence supports the effectiveness of strategy-based cognitive rehabilitation therapies, including compensatory cognitive training (CCT), for such decline. However, questions remain about the length of time that CCT-driven improvements in cognitive and everyday function last, and whether additional 'booster' training sessions could provide additional benefit to aging Veterans who previously underwent treatment. This study examines the long-term durability of CCT in Veterans aged 55+ and provides an opportunity to develop and pilot test a series of CCT booster sessions that can be personalized toward individual everyday functional goals.

Key Dates

Start date

Jul 1, 2023

Status verified

Aug 2025

Primary completion

Jun 30, 2028

Completion

Jun 30, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

28 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

OTHER

Arms

• Experimental: ME-CCT Booster Training
  3-4 Sessions of ME-CCT Booster Training
• Other: Treatment as Usual
  Treatment as Usual

Primary Outcome Measure

"Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)" questionnaire mean score [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]

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