The effects of brain training on how persons with Parkinson's disease think and feel
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Cognitive training of executive functioning on emotion regulation in Parkinson’s DiseaseNervous System Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN95614581
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Reading
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 66
Inclusion Criteria
1. Individuals diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease.
2. Approximately aged 45 years to 75 years.
3. Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing.
4. Have access to a computer or laptop with a speaker.
5. English Speaker.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Neurological disease (other than PD).
2. A diagnosis of a mental health condition.
3. A history of serious head injury.
4. Patients with deep brain stimulation.
5. A Geriatric Depression Scale score indicating clinical levels of depression.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measured at 2-week, 1-month and 2-month follow up:<br>1. Scores on the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003); measuring general reappraisal ability and commonly employed strategies.<br>2. The Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988); a 20-item self-report mood scale, with 10 items measuring positive emotions and 10 items assessing negative emotions. <br>3. The Paced Auditory Serial Attention Task (PASAT; Gronwall, 1977); measuring working memory and near-transfer effects of the intervention. <br>4. The Digit Span Task (Wechsler et al., 2008); measuring working memory and far-transfer effects of the intervention. <br>5. The Colour-Shape Task (Miyake, Emerson, Padilla, & Ahn, 2004); measuring set-shifting.<br>6. The Go/No-Go task (Rush, Barch, & Braver, 2006); measuring response inhibition.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method There are no secondary outcome measures