The effects of 12-week home-based cognitive training with a personal robot on the brain function in patients with early stage of dementia
- Conditions
- Mental and behavioural disorders
- Registration Number
- KCT0004473
- Lead Sponsor
- Ewha Womans University Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 52
1.Dementia patients over 60 years old who can read and write text.
2.Dementia judgment Criteria
- Patients diagnosed with dementia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV
- There is guardian who can meet patient over once a week and can give reliable information about patient
- Early stage of dementia :the scores of Korean version of Mini-Mentel State Exam are more than or equal 18 less than or equal 26
- Global Clinical Dementia Rating Scale is 0.5 or 1
- No change in dosage of anti-dementic drugs until 3 months before the study.
1. The elderly who have current or past major physical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders on history taking, physical examination, and laboratory test.
2. Those who have medical problems such as incurable diseases (end-of-life with a life expectancy of 3 months or less)
3. Those who have significant neurological disease that is required to be treated such as ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebral infarction.
4. Those who cannot read or write because of no education or illiteracy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Electroencephalogram
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Geriatric Depression Score, short form;Geriatric anxiety inventory;Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB)