Memory Rehabilitation by Means of Working Memory Training in Combination With a Recollection Training

Memory Deficits Clinical Trial

Official title:

Memory Rehabilitation by Means of Working Memory Training in Combination

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02790151
• Other study ID #: UOLDENBURG
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 2, 2015
• Last updated: October 17, 2016
• Start date: November 2014
• Est. completion date: October 2016

Study information

• Verified date: October 2016
• Source: University of Oldenburg
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Germany: Ethics Commission
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Memory deficits after brain damage are common and there is still a need for evaluated therapy methods. In this study we compare two therapeutic interventions and investigate whether therapy effects can be found on neuropsychological tests and on a test measuring memory in everyday life.

Description:

In the interventiongroup a computerbased working memory training is combined with a recollection training (repitition-lag procedure). The patients in the active control group undergo the standard memory therapy that is normally provided in the rehabilitation centre (with a focus on the acquisition and execution of different memory strategies, e.g. the spaced retrieval method). The patients in both groups are tested on different neuropsychological tests before and after nine hours of therapy. Additionally, a test is conducted that assesses memory in everyday life.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 36
• Est. completion date: October 2016
• Est. primary completion date: October 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• brain injury

• memory deficits (performance below average in the California Verbal Learning Test in learning trial 1 or 5, sfr or lfr)

Exclusion Criteria:

• severe amnesia (less than 2 words in sfr of the CVLT), dementia, sensory or motor aphasia, impaired vision, insufficient German language skills, lack of patient's consent

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Memory Deficits
• Memory Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Standard Therapy
Learning and practicing Memory strategies
• Experimental Intervention
Computerbased Working Memory Training in Combination with a Recollection Training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Rehabilitationszentrum GmbH	Oldenburg	Deutschland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oldenburg

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Test to assess change in memory performance in everyday life	The test includes different single tasks that measure memory in everyday life e.g. Story recall (Subtest 6 from the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test) Outcome measure: Total number of points	baseline and 9 hours	No
Secondary	Outcome change in different neuropsychological tests	Tests for verbal memory, working memory, prospective memory, attention and word fluency (Composite scores built from raw scores)	baseline and 9 hours	No