Trial document
This trial has been registered retrospectively.
DRKS00022407
Trial Description
Title
Training-induced plasticity of multitasking in everyday-like motor behavior
Trial Acronym
MIND2
URL of the Trial
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/Neuromotor-Behavior/forschung/mind/index.html
Brief Summary in Lay Language
In everyday life we are often confronted with situations in which we have to carry out several tasks at the same time, so-called multitasking (e.g. driving a car while talking to a passenger, walking through the city while writing a message on the smartphone, etc.). With increasing age, multitasking becomes more difficult; the consequences are reduced performance, failure, and increasing risks of accidents and injuries. In long-term this can even lead to the loss of an independent and autonomous life. Scientific studies suggest that age-related changes in cognitive and motor functions and the associated restrictions in everyday life can be counteracted by targeted and tailored training. The aim of this project is to find out how exactly such a training intervention has to be designed in order to successfully improve multitasking skills. Study participants between 65 and 75 years of age are monitored for several months. They take part in different training interventions that train both mental and physical fitness. The success of the training is assessed by motor, neurophysiological and cognitive tests before and after the training phase.
Brief Summary in Scientific Language
The objective of the project is to investigate the benefits of individualized, adaptive training ("tailored training") to improve cognitive-motor multitasking. In a randomized, single-blind, three-armed, twelve-week intervention-study, subjects will be assigned to one of three experimental groups: (1) motor training, (2) cognitive training (3) cognitive-motor multitasking-training. Different motor, cognitive, physiological and neuronal measures are assessed in pre- and post-tests. The study aims to find out whether (1) subjects with motor deficits benefit more from a purely motor training than from multitasking-training, (2) subjects with cognitive deficits benefit more from a purely cognitive training than from multitasking-training, and (3) subjects without motor and cognitive deficits benefit more from multitasking training than from a purely motor or purely cognitive training.
Do you plan to share individual participant data with other researchers?
Yes
Description IPD sharing plan:
Anonymized individual participant data is made available to the public within open access publications. A peer-reviews and published study protocol contains a description of the methods and the statistical analysis plan.
Organizational Data
- DRKS00022407
- 2020/08/26
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- Approved
- V-280-17-CVR-Multitasking-29062018, Ethikkommission der Fakultät Human- und Sozialwissenschaften der Technischen Universität Chemnitz
Secondary IDs
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Health Condition or Problem studied
- healthy elderly people, aged between 65 and 75 years
Interventions/Observational Groups
- Twelve-week cognitive training. The contents are composed of different cognitive tasks. The sessions take place in groups twice a week for 45-60 minutes. Before and after the intervention, cognitive and motor performance as well as other personal and psychological variables are assessed.
- Twelve-week motor training. The contents consist of various balance, flexibility and strengthening exercises. Except for the contents of the training, all variables are kept the same as in Arm 1.
- Twelve-week cognitive-motor multitasking-training. The contents consist of the same exercises as in cognitive and motor training and are executed in combination (i.e. a simultaneous execution of cognitive and motor tasks). Except for the contents of the training, all variables are kept the same as in Arm 1 and Arm 2.
Characteristics
- Interventional
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- Randomized controlled trial
- Blinded
- assessor
- Active control (effective treament of control group)
- Basic research/physiological study
- Parallel
- I-II
- N/A
Primary Outcome
The primary endpoint is the identification of the influence of training effects on the behavioral (cognitive and motor) and neural level in regard to the initial cognitive and motor performance in (virtual) scenarios containing multiple tasks. All examinations are carried out in longitudinal section at two measurement points at a time interval of twelve weeks (before and after the intervention).
Measurement instruments:
- Tracking task (in combination with a motor-auditiv task)
- Virtual driving task (realistic multitasking task)
- Virtual walking task (realistic multitasking task, in combination with the Stroop test and the Digit Symbol Substitution test)
- fNIRS
Secondary Outcome
The secondary endpoint is the assessment of general physical and cognitive fitness. All examinations are carried out in longitudinal section at two measurement points at a time lag of twelve weeks (before and after the intervention).
Measurement instruments:
- Questionnaire to determine subjective and objective health, and social participation
- Campimetry test
- German adaptation of the Baecke Physical Activity questionnaire
- German adaptation of the Falls Efficacy Scale
- Questionnaire on the number, location and causes of falls
- Mini Mental Status Examination
- Keep-track test
- Spatial 2-back test
- Simon test
- Switching test
- Tapping test
- Pegboard test
- Posture test
- Chairstand test
Countries of Recruitment
- Germany
Locations of Recruitment
- other
- other
Recruitment
- Actual
- 2019/03/04
- 150
- Monocenter trial
- National
Inclusion Criteria
- Both, male and female
- 65 Years
- 75 Years
Additional Inclusion Criteria
- right handed
- car driving practice (e.g., at least once a week within the last 6 months)
- ability to walk without walking aids / ability to walk for 30 minutes without negative physical conditions (e.g., - - - difficulty to breath, pain, and cardiac palpations)
- medical clearance certificate (e.g., negative exercise ECG and clinically unremarkable medical history)
Exclusion Criteria
- BMI > 30
- non-corrected low vision
- red-green deficiency or red-green-colour blindness
- orthopedic handicaps
- perceived health problems
- neurological diseases
- cardiovascular disorders
- previous heart attack or stroke
- previous surgery at the head/brain.
Addresses
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- WWU Münster, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich Neuromotorik und Training
- Ms. Prof. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
- Horstmarer Landweg 62b
- 48149 Münster
- Germany
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- claudia.voelcker-rehage at uni-muenster.de
- https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/Neuromotor-Behavior/
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- WWU Münster, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich Neuromotorik und Training
- Ms. Prof. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
- Horstmarer Landweg 62b
- 48149 Münster
- Germany
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- claudia.voelcker-rehage at uni-muenster.de
- https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/Neuromotor-Behavior/
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- WWU Münster, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich Neuromotorik und Training
- Mr. M.Sc. Robert Stojan
- Horstmarer Landweg 62 b
- 48149 Münster
- Germany
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- robert.stojan at uni-muenster.de
- https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/Neuromotor-Behavior/
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- Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Institut für Trainingswissenschaft und Sportinformatik
- Mr. Prof. Dr. Otmar Bock
- Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6
- 50927 Köln
- Germany
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- bock at dshs-koeln.de
- http://www.dshs-koeln.de
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- WWU Münster, Instiut für Sportwissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich Neuromotorik und Training
- Ms. M.Sc. Melanie Mack
- Horstmarer Landweg 62 b
- 48149 Münster
- Germany
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- melanie.mack at uni-muenster.de
- https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/Neuromotor-Behavior/
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Sources of Monetary or Material Support
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Kennedyallee 40
- 53175 Bonn
- Germany
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- http://www.dfg.de
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Status
- Recruiting suspended on temporary hold
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Trial Publications, Results and other Documents
- Ethikvotum
- Bock, O., Drescher, U., van Winsum, W., Kesnerus, T. F., & Voelcker-Rehage, C. (2018). A Virtual-Reality Approach for the Assessment and Rehabilitation of Multitasking Deficits. International Journal of Virtual and Augmented Reality (IJVAR), 2(1), 48-58.
- Projektbeschreibung
- Bock, O., Drescher, U., Janouch, C., Haeger, M., van Winsum W., & Voelcker-Rehage, C.(2018). An experimental paradigm for the assessment of realistic human multitasking. Virtual Reality 23, 61–70.
- Haeger, M., Bock, O., Memmert, D., & Hüttermann, S. (2018). Can driving-simulator training enhance visual attention, cognition, and physical functioning in older adults?. Journal of Aging Research, 2018, 1-9.
- Wechsler, K., Drescher, U., Janouch, C., Haeger, M., Voelcker-Rehage, C., & Bock, O. (2018). Multitasking during simulated car driving: a comparison of young and older persons. Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 910.
- Bock O., Haeger M., Voelcker-Rehage C. (2019). Structure of executive functions in young and in older persons. PLoS ONE 14(5):e0216149.
- Broeker, L., Haeger, M., Bock, O., Kretschmann, B., Ewolds, H., Künzell, S., & Raab, M. (2020). How visual information influences dual-task driving and tracking. Experimental Brain Research, 238:675–687.