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Trial reportAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias2014

Cognitive stimulation for Portuguese older adults with cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial of efficacy, comparative duration, feasibility, and experiential relevance.

Jorge Alves, Filipa Alves-Costa, Rosana Magalhães, Oscar F Gonçalves, Adriana Sampaio

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  8. The effectiveness of reality orientation in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Jorge AlvesNeuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal jorge.alves@psi.uminho.pt.
Filipa Alves-CostaJustice and Violence Applied Research Unit, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Rosana MagalhãesNeuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Oscar F GonçalvesNeuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Adriana SampaioNeuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
University of Minho · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although some studies point to cognitive stimulation as a beneficial therapy for older adults with cognitive impairments, this area of research and practice is still lacking dissemination and is underrepresented in many countries. Moreover, the comparative effects of different intervention durations remain to be established and, besides cognitive effects, pragmatic parameters, such as cost-effectiveness and experiential relevance to participants, are seldom explored. In this work, we present a randomized controlled wait-list trial evaluating 2 different intervention durations (standard = 17 vs brief = 11 sessions) of a cognitive stimulation program developed for older adults with cognitive impairments with or without dementia. 20 participants were randomly assigned to the standard duration intervention program (17 sessions, 1.5 months) or to a wait-list group. At postintervention of the standard intervention group, the wait-list group crossed over to receive the brief intervention program (11 sessions, 1 month). Changes in neuropsychological, functionality, quality of life, and caregiver outcomes were evaluated. Experience during intervention and costs and feasibility were also evaluated. The current cognitive stimulation programs (ie, standard and brief) showed high values of experiential relevance for both intervention durations. High adherence, completion rates, and reasonable costs were found for both formats. Further studies are needed to definitively establish the potential efficacy, optimal duration, cost-effectiveness, and experiential relevance for participants of cognitive intervention approaches.

Indexed as

Cognitive Behavioral TherapyAgedAged, 80 and overCaregiversCognition DisordersDementiaFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansMaleQuality of LifeTreatment Outcomecognitive interventioncognitive stimulationdementiamild cognitive impairment (MCI)

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PMID24526760
PMCPMC10852816
OpenAlexW2075649178

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