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Social isolation and reduced involvement in cognitive activities are associated with repercussions on cognitive well-being and health status in elderly adults. In particular, loneliness and social isolation represent risk factors in favouring cognitive decline and dementia. The Social Cognition Online Training (SCOT) project aims to evaluate the beneficial effects of an online intervention on social-cognitive functioning in healthy elderly subjects.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Social and Cognitive Online Training Group (SCOT) | Experimental | A group of participants randomly assigned to a social-cognitive online training through individual cognitive training sessions and group sessions to improve social functioning. |
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| Control Group (CON) | Active Comparator | A group of participants randomly assigned to receive an active control intervention to compare performances with the experimental group. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| SCOT | Behavioral | A 8-week social and cognitive online training to improve both cognitive and social functioning, which includes 2 sessions (~45 minutes each) of individual cognitive training through the BrainHQ© program 2020 (BrainHQ© Posit Science) and a psycho-educational group session for each week (24 sessions in total). In the experimental intervention, all activities are focused on enhancing executive functions (working memory, processing speed, inhibitory control etc.) and social cognition abilities (identifying/recognizing facial expressions, styles attribution, drawing conclusions etc.). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The Tower of London test (Boccia et al. 2017) | Accuracy (% of correct answers) | Day 0 - Month 3 |
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| Experimental task of emotion recognition | Accuracy (% of correct answers) | Day 0 - Month 3 |
| Italian Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale | Minimum value: 18; Maximum value: 72; Higher scores mean a worse outcome in terms of perceived loneliness. |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Alessandra Dodich | Contact | 0464 808162 | alessandra.dodich@unitn.it |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Costanza Papagno | Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello - CIMeC | Study Director |
| Alessandra Dodich | Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello - CIMeC | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello - CIMeC | Recruiting | Rovereto | Trento | 38068 | Italy |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 38531149 | Derived | Funghi G, Meli C, Cavagna A, Bisoffi L, Zappini F, Papagno C, Dodich A. The Social and Cognitive Online Training (SCOT) project: A digital randomized controlled trial to promote socio-cognitive well-being in older adults. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2024 Jul;122:105405. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2024.105405. Epub 2024 Mar 5. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D060825 | Cognitive Dysfunction |
| ID | Term |
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| D003072 | Cognition Disorders |
| D019965 | Neurocognitive Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| CON | Behavioral | A 8-week active control intervention consisting of 2 sessions (~45 minutes each) of cognitive stimulation exercises and a group session for each week (24 sessions in total) during which the various cognitive domains are deepened and the exercises carried out during the week are reviewed all together. The online control intervention has been specifically designed to increase the cognitive involvement of the subjects and to replicate the condition of exposure to social dynamics. |
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| Day 0 - Month 3 |