Everyday Memory Intervention

NCT ID: NCT04088136

Last Updated: 2024-05-01

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

68 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-03-15

Study Completion Date

2021-12-10

Brief Summary

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Evaluates an intervention designed to improve everyday memory function, contrasting people receiving the intervention with a group that receives traditional memory strategy training.

Detailed Description

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This project seeks to develop and validate a novel approach to training everyday memory functioning in older adults. The approach (1) trains people to use simple but effective memory skills that have broad applicability in everyday life and (2) shapes a set of skills and habits of mind that will increase the likelihood of effective use of skills and memory aids. It is based on a metacognitive perspective on self-regulation in cognitively demanding situations and informed by recent theories about how suboptimal habit patterns can be altered. The approach has not yet been used in an everyday memory intervention in high-functioning, community-dwelling older adults. The proposed research validates ecological momentary assessment methods to get actual behavioral measures of forgetting in everyday life. It then uses these procedures in a randomized experiment that contrasts the everyday memory intervention group with a traditional memory-strategy training group. The hypothesis is that the everyday memory training intervention will reduce everyday memory errors and memory complaints, whereas the memory strategy training will alter strategy use and memory performance, with little cross-over effect. The hypothesized pattern will establish the explicit benefits of our everyday memory intervention procedures and demonstrate the limitation of standard memory training for that purpose.

Conditions

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Aging

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Everyday Metacognitive Memory

Training in techniques for managing memory demands in everyday life

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Everyday Metacognitive Memory Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Provides training in use of techniques and procedures to enhance proactive self-regulatory control over everyday memory demands, including strategies for learning information, planning for meeting everyday goals, and monitoring of efficacy of goal pursuit.

Memory Strategy Control

Trains the use of memory strategies for learning new associations and concepts

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Memory Strategy Control Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Trains use of standard mnemonic techniques such as imagery and sentence generation for learning new associations and organizational and distinctiveness-based strategies for learning sets of items (e.g., word lists).

Interventions

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Everyday Metacognitive Memory Intervention

Provides training in use of techniques and procedures to enhance proactive self-regulatory control over everyday memory demands, including strategies for learning information, planning for meeting everyday goals, and monitoring of efficacy of goal pursuit.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Memory Strategy Control Intervention

Trains use of standard mnemonic techniques such as imagery and sentence generation for learning new associations and organizational and distinctiveness-based strategies for learning sets of items (e.g., word lists).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 70 - 85 years of age
* in fair to good health
* free of major neurocognitive impairment
* English speaking
* endorsed Smartphone and computer users (or willing to learn)

Exclusion Criteria

* diagnosis of any major neurological problems (e.g. stroke, Parkinson's disease, dementia)
* 1.5 SD below age-normed mean (or lower) on the TICS
* low computer and smart phone literacy
* and poor self-rated health.
Minimum Eligible Age

70 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

85 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Georgia Institute of Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Christopher Hertzog, Ph.D

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Georgia Institute of Technology

Locations

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Adult Cognition Lab

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Bailey H, Dunlosky J, Hertzog C. Metacognitive training at home: does it improve older adults' learning? Gerontology. 2010;56(4):414-20. doi: 10.1159/000266030. Epub 2009 Dec 11.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20016124 (View on PubMed)

Bailey HR, Dunlosky J, Hertzog C. Does strategy training reduce age-related deficits in working memory? Gerontology. 2014;60(4):346-56. doi: 10.1159/000356699. Epub 2014 Feb 27.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24577079 (View on PubMed)

Bottiroli S, Cavallini E, Dunlosky J, Vecchi T, Hertzog C. The importance of training strategy adaptation: a learner-oriented approach for improving older adults' memory and transfer. J Exp Psychol Appl. 2013 Sep;19(3):205-18. doi: 10.1037/a0034078. Epub 2013 Aug 26.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23978160 (View on PubMed)

Bottiroli S, Cavallini E, Dunlosky J, Vecchi T, Hertzog C. Self-guided strategy-adaption training for older adults: Transfer effects to everyday tasks. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2017 Sep;72:91-98. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2017.05.015. Epub 2017 Jun 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28609674 (View on PubMed)

Dunlosky J, Cavallini E, Roth H, McGuire CL, Vecchi T, Hertzog C. Do self-monitoring interventions improve older adult learning? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2007 Jun;62 Spec No 1:70-6. doi: 10.1093/geronb/62.special_issue_1.70.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17565167 (View on PubMed)

Dunlosky J, Hertzog C. Measuring strategy production during associative learning: the relative utility of concurrent versus retrospective reports. Mem Cognit. 2001 Mar;29(2):247-53. doi: 10.3758/bf03194918.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11352207 (View on PubMed)

Dunlosky, J., Hertzog, C., Kennedy, M. R. T., & Thiede, K. W. (2005). The self-monitoring approach for effective learning. Cognitive Technology, 10, 4-11.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Dunlosky J, Kubat-Silman AK, Hertzog C. Training monitoring skills improves older adults' self-paced associative learning. Psychol Aging. 2003 Jun;18(2):340-5. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.2.340.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12825781 (View on PubMed)

Hertzog C, McGuire CL, Horhota M, Jopp D. Does believing in "use it or lose it" relate to self-rated memory control, strategy use, and recall? Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2010;70(1):61-87. doi: 10.2190/AG.70.1.c.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20377166 (View on PubMed)

Hertzog C, Sinclair SM, Dunlosky J. Age differences in the monitoring of learning: cross-sectional evidence of spared resolution across the adult life span. Dev Psychol. 2010 Jul;46(4):939-48. doi: 10.1037/a0019812.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20604613 (View on PubMed)

Hertzog C, Dunlosky J. Metacognition in Later Adulthood: Spared Monitoring Can Benefit Older Adults' Self-regulation. Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2011 Jun;20(3):167-173. doi: 10.1177/0963721411409026.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24478539 (View on PubMed)

Hertzog C, Lineweaver TT, Hines JC. Computerized assessment of age differences in memory beliefs. Percept Mot Skills. 2014 Oct;119(2):609-28. doi: 10.2466/03.10.PMS.119c23z4. Epub 2014 Sep 26.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25259780 (View on PubMed)

Hertzog C, Lustig E, Pearman A, Waris A. Behaviors and Strategies Supporting Everyday Memory in Older Adults. Gerontology. 2019;65(4):419-429. doi: 10.1159/000495910. Epub 2019 Feb 8.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30739118 (View on PubMed)

Lineweaver, T. T., & Hertzog, C. (1998). Adults' efficacy and control beliefs regarding memory and aging: Separating general from personal beliefs. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 5, 264-296. doi: 10.1076/anec.5.4.264.771

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Provided Documents

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Other Identifiers

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1R21AG059942-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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H19341

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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