Meditation Strategies, Attention, and Mobility in Older Adults
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 43
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in sustained attention
研究概览
简要总结
Approximately 30% of community-dwelling older adults experience one or more falls per year, resulting in injuries, loss of independence, and reduced quality of life. While there are known physiological risk factors for falls, including poor balance and altered gait patterns, it is now recognized that impaired cognitive functioning is also a risk factor for falls. Within the broad construct of cognition, one specific domain that has been focused on in the falls literature is attention. The literature suggests that improving attention in those at-risk for falls may reduce older adult's risk of falling.
详细描述
The current study aims to investigate the impact of meditation strategies on measures of attention and electrical signals in the brain in older adults. Investigators will recruit older adults who are living in the community. Participants will be assigned to one of two groups: 1) guided focused attention group, or 2) music group (control group). All participants will complete three in-person sessions per week and then be encouraged to practice independently on the other days in the week, for a total of four weeks.The current study focuses on focused attention meditation strategies, as it is recommended for beginner-level meditators. This will include training to be able to focus on one's breathing for 20 minute sessions. Focused attention meditation has been found to increase levels of executive functioning and attention. Participants will complete mobility and cognitive assessments at both the beginning and end of the intervention. These will be completed in the retirement homes for convenience. Participants will also attend an in-lab session to complete electroencephalogram (EEG) testing at both timepoints.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •minimum 60 years of age,
- •minimum completed high school,
- •must be comfortable writing and reading English,
- •be able to walk independently,
- •must be right-handed (for EEG analysis),
- •score 6+/8 on the instrumental activities of daily living scale,
- •score >24/30 on the Mini-Mental Status examination.
排除标准
- •To be included, participants must NOT:
- •have a diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease,
- •have a diagnosis of cognitive impairment (e.g., MCI),
- •have a diagnosis of a psychiatric condition,
- •have had a concussion in the last 12 months,
- •have had a stroke,
- •have musculoskeletal or joint disease,
- •experience dizziness or loss of balance,
- •have visual, auditory, or somatosensory impairment, or
- •a recent history (past 2 years) of regular meditation practice (1 or more times per week) or include a meditation component in their religious practice.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in sustained attention
时间窗: 4 weeks
Measured by performance on sustained attention task.
次要结局
- Change in working memory(4 weeks)
- Change in set-shifting(4 weeks)
- Change in global attention(4 weeks)
- Change in memory(4 weeks)
- Change in conflict resolution(4 weeks)
- Change in mobility(4 weeks)
- Change in mobility and balance(4 weeks)
研究者
Lindsay Nagamatsu
Assistant Professor
Western University, Canada