Studying the Effects of Digital Interventions on Cognition, Wellbeing, Stress, and Sleep in Older Adults

Part of paid clinical trials in San Francisco, California.

Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
Study ID
NCT06633978
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Aging
  • MCI

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
60 Years - 85 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • MediTrain — DEVICE
    Participants will engage with a digital meditation app for 30m/day for 6wks. MediTrain is a tablet-based, meditation-inspired, cognitive training game aimed at improving self-regulation of internal attention and distractions. It was developed in collaboration with meditation thought-leader Jack Kornfield, and Zynga, a world-class video game company. It was created to make benefits of concentrative meditation more easily accessible to anyone, including complete novices. This is achieved by creating a game that yields quantifiable and attainable goals, provides feedback, and includes an adaptive algorithm to gradually increase difficulty as users improve.
  • wrist worn multi-sensor watches — DEVICE
    Stress and sleep data will be recorded at home throughout the intervention using FDA-approved wrist worn multi-sensor watches.
  • Sleep monitor — DEVICE
    Sleep Profiler devices are FDA-cleared reduced-montage EEG recording devices that will be used in accordance with its FDA clearance. They are completely non-invasive and are designed to be comfortable enough to wear all night without interfering with normal sleep. These devices enable quality sleep recordings in the comfort of people's homes, rather than required an overnight stay at a sleep lab at UCSF.

Study Details

The goal of this proposed research is to collect pilot data to test the hypothesis that treatment with a novel form of closed-loop digital meditation (MediTrain) will lead to a greater magnitude of gains in cognitive abilities in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared to OA without cognitive impairment, and will lead to improvements in quantitative measures of sleep.

Key Dates

Start date
Sep 10, 2024
Status verified
Feb 2026
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2026
Completion
Aug 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
90 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: MediTrain

Primary Outcome Measure

Mean change on the Continuous Performance Task (CPT) over time [ Time Frame: baseline, immediate follow-up, and at a 6 month follow-up in a subset of participants ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoCalifornia94158
David Ziegler
[email protected]
415-476-2164

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