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Administrative data

NCT number NCT05099874
Other study ID # Pro00016536
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date December 20, 2022
Est. completion date December 2023

Study information

Verified date June 2023
Source Children's National Research Institute
Contact Steven J Hardy, Ph.D.
Phone 202-476-5000
Email sjhardy@childrensnational.org
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) exhibit significantly reduced cognitive functioning (often difficulties with attention) compared to peers and siblings without SCD. EndeavorRx (Akili Interactive Labs: Boston, MA) is an FDA-approved home-based, electronic attentional-control training program designed to treat attention problems in youth. Users access EndeavorRx on a tablet device for 25-30 minutes each day, 5 days per week, for 4 weeks. The program involves training in a game-like environment that repeatedly challenges attentional-control abilities and adapts to user performance, becoming more difficult over time as performance improves. This pilot study is examining the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of EndeavorRx in a sample of 20 children with SCD ages 8-16 who are being treated with chronic blood transfusion therapy.


Description:

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) exhibit significantly reduced cognitive functioning compared to peers and siblings without SCD. Cognitive deficits are greatest among those with severe SCD genotypes, persistent anemia, and strokes and these deficits worsen over time. These deficits often manifest as difficulties with executive functioning and attention due to the predominance of cerebral infarcts (>90%) that occur in the frontal cortex. Reduced capacity to engage such cognitive skills has significant real-world implications, leading to disruption to academic achievement and attainment, vocational outcomes, and quality of life. EndeavorRx (Akili Interactive Labs: Boston, MA) is an FDA-approved home-based, electronic attentional-control training program designed to treat attention problems in youth. Users access EndeavorRx on a tablet device for 25-30 minutes each day, 5 days per week, for 4 weeks. The program involves training in a game-like environment that repeatedly challenges attentional-control abilities and adapts to user performance, becoming more difficult over time as performance improves. Data support effects of EndeavorRx on performance-based and parent-reported measures of attention in youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Given the similarities in attentional functioning among youth with ADHD and those with SCD, EndeavorRx holds promise as an intervention for patients experiencing SCD-related cognitive deficits. This pilot study is examining the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of EndeavorRx in a sample of 20 children with SCD ages 8-16 who are being treated with chronic blood transfusion therapy due to an identified high risk of stroke or as a preventive measure to protect against additional stroke events.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 20
Est. completion date December 2023
Est. primary completion date December 2023
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 8 Years to 16 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - diagnosis of SCD - ages 8-16 years - maintained on monthly blood transfusions consistently for at least 3 months. - patients will be proceed to the intervention phase only if they have a T-score > 75th percentile for Omission Errors on the Conners' Continuous Performance Test, 3rd Edition (CPT-3) or a T-score > 75th percentile for the Inattention subscale of the ADHD Rating Scale, Fifth Edition (ADHD-RS-V). Exclusion Criteria: - estimated Intelligence Quotient < 70 - motor, visual, or auditory impairment that prevents computer use - known diagnosis of a mental health condition that precludes, or takes treatment precedence over, participation in cognitive training - history of photosensitive seizures - insufficient English fluency.

Study Design


Intervention

Device:
EndeavorRx
EndeavorRx is a digital intervention delivered through an action video game that is indicated to improve attention function. EndeavorRx users first complete two discrete tasks: 1) a perceptual discrimination/attention task in which users respond to target stimuli and ignore distractor stimuli (e.g., tapping the screen quickly only when red aliens appear) and 2) a sensorimotor navigation task in which users tilt their device to steer a hovercraft down a river while targeting or avoiding certain objects. Users are subsequently presented with a multitask training session where they complete the perceptual discrimination/attention task and the sensorimotor navigation task simultaneously. Algorithms adapt the program in both real-time and between sessions to automatically adjust the difficulty level.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Children's National Hospital Washington District of Columbia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Children's National Research Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary EndeavorRx feasibility assessed by patient/family interest Feasibility will be determined by examining the proportion of eligible patients/families approached about the study who enroll. Approximately 10 months
Primary EndeavorRx feasibility assessed by program completion rates Feasibility will be evaluated by examining the proportion of the sample that completes at least 60 EndeavorRx missions (50%). Approximately 4 weeks per participant
Primary EndeavorRx feasibility assessed by reports of technical ease-of-use and satisfaction Feasibility will be determined by examining parent and child reports of technical ease-of-use and satisfaction. Approximately 4 weeks from start of intervention
Secondary Inattention assessed by change in Omission Errors on the Conners' Continuous Performance Test, 3rd Edition (CPT-3) EndeavorRx efficacy will be evaluated by examining change in Omission Errors on the CPT-3 computerized assessment after completing EndeavorRx. Approximately 4 weeks from start of intervention
Secondary Inattention assessed by change in the Inattention subscale of the ADHD Rating Scale, Fifth Edition (ADHD-RS-V) EndeavorRx efficacy will be evaluated by examining change in the Inattention subscale of the parent-reported ADHD-RS-V after completing EndeavorRx. Approximately 4 weeks from start of intervention
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