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Studying the Effects of Digital Interventions on Cognition, Wellbeing, Stress, and Sleep in Older Adults
Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Summary
The goal of this proposed research is to collect pilot data to test the hypothesis that treatment with a novel form of closed-loop digital meditation (MediTrain) will lead to a greater magnitude of gains in cognitive abilities in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared to OA without cognitive impairment, and will lead to improvements in quantitative measures of sleep.
Official title: A Pilot Study of the Impact of Personalized Digital Meditation on Improving Sleep and Reducing Stress in MCI
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
90
Start Date
2024-09-10
Completion Date
2026-08
Last Updated
2026-02-24
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
MediTrain
Participants will engage with a digital meditation app for 30m/day for 6wks. MediTrain is a tablet-based, meditation-inspired, cognitive training game aimed at improving self-regulation of internal attention and distractions. It was developed in collaboration with meditation thought-leader Jack Kornfield, and Zynga, a world-class video game company. It was created to make benefits of concentrative meditation more easily accessible to anyone, including complete novices. This is achieved by creating a game that yields quantifiable and attainable goals, provides feedback, and includes an adaptive algorithm to gradually increase difficulty as users improve.
wrist worn multi-sensor watches
Stress and sleep data will be recorded at home throughout the intervention using FDA-approved wrist worn multi-sensor watches.
Sleep monitor
Sleep Profiler devices are FDA-cleared reduced-montage EEG recording devices that will be used in accordance with its FDA clearance. They are completely non-invasive and are designed to be comfortable enough to wear all night without interfering with normal sleep. These devices enable quality sleep recordings in the comfort of people's homes, rather than required an overnight stay at a sleep lab at UCSF.
Locations (1)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States