Active — Not RecruitingNot Applicable

Improving Cognition of Older Adults in Community Housing

Canada18 participantsStarted 2023-07-04

Plain-language summary

The I-COACH study will focus on seniors with mental health conditions who are living in senior community housing. This initiative proposes to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a 12-week integrated program of cognitive remediation (CR) in combination with social and physical activity using an open-label design. The program will be provided over three iterative groups of six participants each, with one Personal Support Worker (PSW). The program will be co-designed at a granular level in an iterative process, drawing upon feedback provided by each participant group, PSW, and community housing staff to improve the user experience. We will build the capacity for community personal support workers (PSWs) to deliver this program independently and with fidelity to the intervention model. Our ultimate goal is to help seniors continue to live as long as possible in their homes within the community.

Who can participate

Age range50 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Age 50 years and above. The rationale of age cutoff of 50 is that this age is considered a typical geriatric age cutoff especially for people with severe mental illness
✓. Any race or ethnicity
✓. Any gender identity
✓. Meets DSM-V criteria for any disorder
✓. Clinically stable as operationalized by (1) having not been admitted to a psychiatric hospital within the 3 months prior to assessment, (2) having had no change in psychotropic medication dosage within the 4 weeks prior to assessment, and (3) ascertained to be clinically and medically stable by one the study psychiatrists.
✓. Willingness and ability to speak English
✓. Willingness to provide informed consent or assent as applicable.
✓. Corrected visual ability that enables reading of newspaper headlines and corrected hearing capacity that is adequate to respond to a raised conversational voice. Both vision and hearing ability will be assessed by asking the participant if they can see the text and hear the research personnel during the screening consent and enrolment process.

Exclusion criteria

What they're measuring

Participant's satisfaction

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Acceptability and Usability of Cognitive Remediation

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Participants' feedback of the program

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Staff Feedback of the program

Timeframe: Within one week from the end of week 12 of the intervention

Sessions and overall program attendance

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05932342

SponsorCentre for Addiction and Mental Health

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2028-12

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Plain-language summary

Who can participate

Age range50 Years

SexALL

See this in plain English?

AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.

Inclusion criteria

✓. Age 50 years and above. The rationale of age cutoff of 50 is that this age is considered a typical geriatric age cutoff especially for people with severe mental illness
✓. Any race or ethnicity
✓. Any gender identity
✓. Meets DSM-V criteria for any disorder
✓. Clinically stable as operationalized by (1) having not been admitted to a psychiatric hospital within the 3 months prior to assessment, (2) having had no change in psychotropic medication dosage within the 4 weeks prior to assessment, and (3) ascertained to be clinically and medically stable by one the study psychiatrists.
✓. Willingness and ability to speak English
✓. Willingness to provide informed consent or assent as applicable.
✓. Corrected visual ability that enables reading of newspaper headlines and corrected hearing capacity that is adequate to respond to a raised conversational voice. Both vision and hearing ability will be assessed by asking the participant if they can see the text and hear the research personnel during the screening consent and enrolment process.

Exclusion criteria

What they're measuring

Participant's satisfaction

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Acceptability and Usability of Cognitive Remediation

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Participants' feedback of the program

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention

Staff Feedback of the program

Timeframe: Within one week from the end of week 12 of the intervention

Sessions and overall program attendance

Timeframe: end of week 12 of the intervention