A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a motivational enhancement smartphone application promoting lifestyle habituation for the prevention of dementia
试验速览
- 阶段
- 未知
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 40
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study was to confirm the effectiveness of the motivation-enhancing smartphone application on the brain health activity level of cognition, exercise, and nutrition. For this purpose, random assignment was conducted for the elderly people aged 60 to 79 years who agreed to the study, and finally 40 people (20 in the intervention group, 20 in the control group) completed the study. For 8 weeks, both the intervention group and the control group performed cognitive, exercise, and nutritional brain health activities autonomously, but the intervention group additionally watched support videos from family, friends, and medical staff through a smartphone application and conducted self-evaluating. As a result, it was found that the intervention group had a positive (+) relationship with intrinsic motivation and moderate-intensity physical activity compared to the control group. In addition, as a result of examining adherence to the intervention program through the brain health activity diary, it was found that the intervention group maintained the activity performance longer than the control group. We suggest that the motivation enhancement application could be an efficient option for maintaining and promoting psychosocial health behavior. Also, as our smartphone application is not restricted to dementia, it can be applicable on many other diseases that need behavioral change. Further research is required to evaluate effectiveness of the smartphone application in other diseases.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional Study
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60?(Year) 至 79?(Year)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •1. Aged 60-79 years
- •2. Users of an Android phone with a Wi-Fi connection
- •3. Person without dementia who is interested in brain health (including person with subjective memory impairment or mild cognitive impairment)
- •4. Can read and write Korean, as defined by a literacy test
- •5. Having a reliable informant who can provide investigators with requested information
- •6. Providing a written informed consent
排除标准
- •1. Major psychiatric illness such as major depressive disorder
- •2. Dementia
- •3. Other neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Parkinson's disease)
- •4. MMSE Z score < -1.5
- •5. Other serious or unstable medical disease
- •6. Illiterate
- •7. Any conditions preventing cooperation as judged by the study physician
- •8. Simultaneous participation in any other intervention trial