Age Stereotype Priming and Social Participation — ASPSP  

Aging Well Clinical Trial

Official title: Age Stereotype Priming and Moderating Effects of Social Participation

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Clinical Trial Description

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. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Aging Well
• Memory Disorders
• Memory Loss

• NCT number: NCT04202120
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: Alma Au, PhD
• Phone: +85293609492
• Email: ssalma@polyu.edu.hk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 12, 2018
• Completion date: December 31, 2020