Cognitive stimulation as an intervention to strengthen cognition and quality of life as well as to prevent a delirium in inpatients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a pilot study to examine the feasibility of the intervention and of the study design for preparing a randomized controlled trial - CogStim-G

niklinik Köln, Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies0 sites15 target enrollmentApril 8, 2019

Overview

Phase: N/A
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: F00-F09
Sponsor: niklinik Köln, Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies
Enrollment: 15
Status: Completed
Last Updated: last year

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

April 8, 2019

End Date

July 11, 2019

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

niklinik Köln, Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies

•Inpatient stay in the geriatric clinic of the Johanniter Hospital Bonn; mild cognitive impairment or mild to moderate dementia (operationalized by a total MMST score between 10 and 25 points and a total DemTec score of \= 12 points; age: \= 60 years; the participant is able to sit at the table to take part in the neuropsychological and clinical tests and in the cognitive stimulation program; mother tongue German or very good knowledge of German; good or sufficiently corrected visual and auditory ability

•Acute suicidal tendencies; serious neurological and/or psychiatric disorders with cognitive symptoms (persistent or past; psychoses, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain tumours); other serious or life\-threatening comorbidities that are an obstacle to participate in the study; bedridden patients