Age Stereotype Priming and Social Participation

NCT ID: NCT04202120

Last Updated: 2019-12-17

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-01-12

Study Completion Date

2020-12-31

Brief Summary

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Memory performance is shown to be affected by age stereotypes among older adults. The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of age stereotype primes on episodic memory using priming intervention. The moderating effects of social participation is also examined.

Detailed Description

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All participants are community-dwelling older adults residing in Hong Kong. They are invited to review their social participation profile and given a brief psycho-education about memory.

They are then randomly allocated to one of the two following conditions. Participants are primed either with age stereotypes or non-age stereotypes words by implicit priming intervention in the context of a reaction task prior to the episodic memory tasks. Other measures such as demographic variables and social participation rate are collected by questionnaire during the delayed recall interval.

Conditions

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Aging Well Memory Loss

Keywords

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Age stereotypes episodic memory social participation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Age-related priming

Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with age-related primes.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Age-related stereotyping priming

Intervention Type OTHER

The priming intervention was performed using the E-prime 2.0 software (Psychology Software Tools, Pittsburgh, PA). To ensure the primes flashed on screen were beyond awareness, the similar adjustment procedure was taken (see Levy, 1996; Stein et al., 2002). After the trial block, participants were asked to try to report any words viewed during each trial. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) will be reduced or enhanced whenever 2 words or above were correctly reported or no single word could be reported respectively. The priming SOA for this study ranged from 32 ms to 208 ms (M = 98.70 ms. SD = 48.60).

Non-age related priming

Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with NON age-related primes.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Non age-related stereotype priming

Intervention Type OTHER

he priming intervention was performed using the E-prime 2.0 software (Psychology Software Tools, Pittsburgh, PA). To ensure the primes flashed on screen were beyond awareness, the similar adjustment procedure was taken (see Levy, 1996; Stein et al., 2002). After the trial block, participants were asked to try to report any words viewed during each trial. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) will be reduced or enhanced whenever 2 words or above were correctly reported or no single word could be reported respectively. The priming SOA for this study ranged from 32 ms to 208 ms (M = 98.70 ms. SD = 48.60).

Interventions

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Age-related stereotyping priming

The priming intervention was performed using the E-prime 2.0 software (Psychology Software Tools, Pittsburgh, PA). To ensure the primes flashed on screen were beyond awareness, the similar adjustment procedure was taken (see Levy, 1996; Stein et al., 2002). After the trial block, participants were asked to try to report any words viewed during each trial. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) will be reduced or enhanced whenever 2 words or above were correctly reported or no single word could be reported respectively. The priming SOA for this study ranged from 32 ms to 208 ms (M = 98.70 ms. SD = 48.60).

Intervention Type OTHER

Non age-related stereotype priming

he priming intervention was performed using the E-prime 2.0 software (Psychology Software Tools, Pittsburgh, PA). To ensure the primes flashed on screen were beyond awareness, the similar adjustment procedure was taken (see Levy, 1996; Stein et al., 2002). After the trial block, participants were asked to try to report any words viewed during each trial. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) will be reduced or enhanced whenever 2 words or above were correctly reported or no single word could be reported respectively. The priming SOA for this study ranged from 32 ms to 208 ms (M = 98.70 ms. SD = 48.60).

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Indication of largely normal cognitive functioning as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms -

Exclusion Criteria

Sensory deficits and evidence of cognitive impairment as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms

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Minimum Eligible Age

55 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Alma Au, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Dr (female)

Locations

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Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong, , Hong Kong

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Hong Kong

Central Contacts

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Alma Au, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +85293609492

Email: [email protected]

Stephen Chan, Masters

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +85227667746

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Alma Au, PhD

Role: primary

References

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Au A, Chan AS, Chiu H. Verbal learning in Alzheimer's dementia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2003 Mar;9(3):363-75. doi: 10.1017/S1355617703930025.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12666761 (View on PubMed)

Wong A, Yiu S, Nasreddine Z, Leung KT, Lau A, Soo YOY, Wong LK, Mok V. Validity and reliability of two alternate versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (Hong Kong version) for screening of Mild Neurocognitive Disorder. PLoS One. 2018 May 23;13(5):e0196344. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196344. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29791452 (View on PubMed)

Stein R, Blanchard-Fields F, Hertzog C. The effects of age-stereotype priming on the memory performance of older adults. Exp Aging Res. 2002 Apr-Jun;28(2):169-81. doi: 10.1080/03610730252800184.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11928527 (View on PubMed)

Chan SCY, Au AML, Lai SMK. The detrimental impacts of negative age stereotypes on the episodic memory of older adults: does social participation moderate the effects? BMC Geriatr. 2020 Nov 5;20(1):452. doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01833-z.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33153433 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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AFC2018

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id