Cognitive Aging Clinical Trial
Official title:
A 14 Week Study of Mindfulness Effects on Attentional Control in Older Adults (The MACS Study: Mindfulness and Attentional Control in Seniors)
Attentional control, or individuals' ability to choose which stimuli in the environment they
attend to and which they ignore, declines with older age. Studies from the past two decades
suggest that mindfulness meditative practice, such as a standardized mindfulness based stress
reduction programs, may increase the efficiency of attention networks.To date, the majority
of studies that have related mindfulness meditation practice to attentional control have been
based on retrospective self-reported mindfulness or cross-sectional measurement in
experienced meditators. More recent experimental studies using pre-post training designs have
shown that meditation-naïve individuals can experience attentional improvement with
mindfulness intervention. This study seeks to elucidate the time course and process by which
such attentional improvements might be achieved.
This research study investigates change in attentional control as participants progress
through an 8-week mindfulness-inspired training (MIT) intervention, and has two specific
aims: 1) to determine the time course of change in attentional components such as cognitive
control and sustained attention as a consequence of MIT; attention will be measured weekly
for 3 weeks before, 3 weeks after, and during 8 weeks of MIT. 2) To investigate the extent to
which change in attentional performance is coupled/correlated with markers of emotion
regulation, perceived mindfulness, and perceived mind wandering.
This will be a 14-week research study exploring week to week changes in attentional control
and selected time-varying covariates. The study will involve comparison of two groups of
adults aged 65 and older. Half the participants (n=20) will be randomized to received eight
weeks of mindfulness-inspired training, while the other half (n=20) are not.
Groups will be compared in the amount of change experienced in measures of attentional
control. In addition, the association between changes in emotion regulation, perceived
mindfulness, and perceived mind wandering with changes in attentional control will be
examined, as well as whether this association differs between persons who did and did not
receive mindfulness-inspired training. Measurement will include both paper-and-pencil and
computer-administered tests.
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