CD Attention Trainer Improves Older Adults Memory

CD 注意力训练器可提高老年人的记忆力

• 批准号: 6691810
• 负责人: ROBERT RAGER
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: COMPACT DISC, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6691810
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; attention; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; computer assisted instruction; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; conditioning; data collection methodology /evaluation; developmental psychology; field study; functional ability; human old age (65+); human subject; memory disorders; outcomes research; psychological reinforcement; psychometrics; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing the ability of older adults to live independently is a growing public health priority. Because age-related memory declines intimate risk of dependency, older adults are concerned about their ability to remember information and events of a few hours ago and acts performed even a few moments ago. We propose an innovative CD-ROM/Web Attention Trainer to improve three basic aspects of attention, i.e., coordinating, allocating, and focusing, relevant to everyday cognitive function of community-residing elderly. Memory theories pose a central role for attention in guiding the initial encoding and later retrieval of to-be-learned information, and deficits in attention, rather than in retrieval, may undermine the elderly's everyday memory functioning. Enhancing basic attention components will help mitigate against many everyday cognitive complaints of the elderly when running multiple errands such as medication regimen compliance and keeping physician appointments which place heavy demands on coordinating, allocating and focusing attention. The proposed intervention holds promise for older adults in bolstering their attentional skills including the encoding of new information into memory and remembering habitual acts. The program, designed to be comfortable, entertaining, and engaging, will equip elderly adults with skills to: maintain and increase attentional skills; to improve perceived efficacy for successfully completing everyday tasks with heavy attention demands; and to monitor the effects of increased attentional function on everyday cognition, memory, and performance. Phase I aims to design, develop and field test a prototype CD-ROM program called ATTENTION TRAINER to help increase and monitor changes in the three basic components of attention, and their effects on cognition and memory more broadly. Phase II will fully develop the Attention Training CD and Web program to meet the everyday cognitive needs of elderly across a spectrum of demographic variables.

描述（由申请人提供）：增强老年人独立生活的能力是日益增长的公共卫生优先事项。由于与年龄相关的记忆会下降依赖性的密切风险，因此老年人担心自己记住几个小时前的信息和事件的能力，甚至在片刻前进行的行为。我们提出了一个创新的CD-ROM/Web注意培训师，以改善关注的三个基本方面，即协调，分配和专注，与社区保留的老年人的日常认知功能有关。记忆理论在指导最初的编码和后来检索要学习的信息以及关注而不是检索的缺陷可能会破坏老年人的日常记忆功能时，扮演着关注的核心作用。在运行多种差事（例如药物方案依从性）时，增强基本注意力组成部分将有助于减轻老年人的许多日常认知投诉，并保持对协调，分配和集中注意力的巨大要求的医师任命。拟议的干预措施对老年人有希望加强注意力技能，包括将新信息编码为记忆和记住习惯行为。该计划旨在舒适，娱乐和引人入胜，将为老年人提供：维持和提高注意力技能的技能；为了提高成功完成关注需求的日常任务的感知功效；并监视增加注意力功能对日常认知，记忆和表现的影响。 第一阶段的目的是设计，开发和现场测试一个名为“注意训练师”的原型CD-ROM程序，以帮助增加和监测注意的三个基本组成部分的变化，以及它们对认知和记忆的影响。第二阶段将完全开发注意力培训CD和Web计划，以满足老年人在人口统计学变量中的日常认知需求。