Clinical Research Directory
Browse clinical research sites, groups, and studies.
To Drill or Not to Drill: Do Memory Drills Help Train the Ability to "Remember to Remember" in Veterans
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to memory drilling works in improving the ability to remember to do something later in treatment-seeking veterans. The main question it aims to answer is: Does adding memory drilling to intensive treatment programs improve the patient's ability to remember to do something later? Researchers will compare typical standardized memory training to the memory training with drilling to see if drilling improves the veterans' ability to remember tasks they are supposed to do later. Participants will: * complete the Operation Mend intensive treatment program with either standard care (either with or without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder \[PTSD\] focused trauma therapy) or standard care + memory drilling * complete a virtual memory assessment at entrance, exit, and three months post exit. This assessment will include questionnaires, interviews, and computerized and naturalistic memory tasks.
Official title: To Drill or Not to Drill: Do Memory Drills Help Strengthen Prospective Memory and Decrease Veterans' Concerns About Prospective Memory Problems?
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
75
Start Date
2024-10-22
Completion Date
2026-11
Last Updated
2025-12-19
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Memory Drilling
The experimental group will receive the additional intervention during their seven sessions with their care providers. The intervention is computerized "memory drills" training. This training includes the completion of a list learning memory task (HVLT) and then a PM practice task conducted on the computer at each session.
Compensatory Strategies
Participants learn compensatory strategies to assist with their memory performance. This involves both external strategies, such as calendering and setting alarms, and internal strategies, like imagery and mnemonics.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
This is PTSD-targeted therapy.
Locations (1)
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States