Age Stereotype Priming and Social Participation

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Memory Loss; Aging Well
• Interventions: Other: Age-related stereotyping priming; Other: Non age-related stereotype priming

• Registration Number: NCT04202120
• Lead Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-12
• Status Verified: 2019-12
• Study First Submitted: 2019-12-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-12-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-12-16
• Study First Posted: 2019-12-17
• Last Update Posted: 2019-12-17
• Primary Completion: 2020-10-31
• Study Completion: 2020-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

Indication of largely normal cognitive functioning as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms -

Exclusion Criteria

Sensory deficits and evidence of cognitive impairment as screened on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with Hong Kong norms

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Age-related priming	Age-related stereotyping priming	Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with age-related primes.
Non-age related priming	Non age-related stereotype priming	Participants received a review of the profile of their social participation. They also received psycho-education about memory components. They were give given memory tests with NON age-related primes.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hong Kong List Learning Test	Change from baseline through study completion, an average of 2 hours	The Hong Kong List Learning is a validated tool for assessing episodic memory for aged Chinese speaking adults (Chan, 2006). It was further taken for investigating differences among older adults with normal cognitive ability and older adults with mild cognitive impairment (Yeung et al., 2016). The random control list was taken in this study. It comprises 16 words formed by four categories:

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong