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Trial reportJournal of aging and health2018

The Impact of Three Cognitive Training Interventions on Older Adults' Physical Functioning Across 5 Years.

Lesley A Ross, Briana N Sprague, Christine B Phillips, Melissa L O'Connor, Joan E Dodson

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of aging and health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Does Cognitive Training Reduce Falls across Ten Years?: Data from the ACTIVE Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  3. The Effects of Useful Field of View Training on Brain Activity and Connectivity.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019
    Trial
  4. Effects of different training characteristics in combined resistance and cognitive training on motor and cognitive performance in older adults: A systematic review.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2026
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  9. Dynamic Useful Field of View Training to Enhance Older Adults' Cognitive and Motor Function: A Pilot Study.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2021
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  10. Cognitive training, mobility, and everyday life.The lancet. Healthy longevity · 2021
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  11. Cognitive Training Attenuates Decline in Physical Function Across 10 Years.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021
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  14. Age-Varying Relationships Between Physical Function and Cognition in Older Adulthood.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lesley A Ross1 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.
Briana N Sprague1 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.
Christine B Phillips1 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.
Melissa L O'Connor2 North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.
Joan E Dodson3 University of Alabama at Huntsville, USA.

Funding

TRIAL OF A COGNITIVE INTERVENTION FOR OLDER ADULTSU01AG014260 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI REBOK, GEORGE W. · 1996 to 2010
$3.4M
COGNITIVE APPROACH TO MAINTAINING SELF CARE INVOLVEMENTU01NR004507 · NINR · HEBREW REHABILITATION CENTER FOR AGED · PI MORRIS, JOHN N. · 1996 to 2010
$3.1M
TRIAL OF A COGNITIVE INTERVENTION FOR OLDER ADULTS--CCU01AG014282 · NIA · NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES, INC. · PI TENNSTEDT, SHARON L · 1996 to 2010
$3.0M
MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT OF COGNITIVE ADLSU01NR004508 · NINR · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI UNVERZAGT, FREDERICK W. · 1996 to 2010
$2.8M
FLUID REASONING TRAINING FOR URBAN ELDERSU01AG014276 · NIA · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MARSISKE, MICHAEL · 1996 to 2010
$2.7M
FLUID ABILITY TRAINING AMONG ELDERLYU01AG014263 · NIA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI WILLIS, SHERRY L · 1996 to 2010
$2.3M
COGNITIVE TRAINING &EVERYDAY COMPETENCE IN THE ELDERLYU01AG014289 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BALL, KARLENE K · 1996 to 2010
$2.3M
NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014260NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014263NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014276NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014282NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014289NINR NIH HHS U01 NR004507NINR NIH HHS U01 NR004508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivePhysical functioning is closely associated with cognition. The current study assessed the impact of three cognitive training programs on objective measures of physical functioning across 5 years.

methodOlder adults randomized to a processing speed ( n = 702), reasoning ( n = 694), or memory ( n = 703) training intervention were compared with those randomized to a no-contact control condition ( n = 698). Intention-to-treat (ITT) and treatment-received/dosage (time-varying number of training sessions) analyses were conducted.

resultsThere were no transfer effects in the ITT analyses. Treatment-received models demonstrated that training sessions (i.e., higher dosage) across all intervention arms transferred to better maintained Digit Symbol Copy and Turn 360 performance relative to the control group. More reasoning training transferred to better grip strength. DISCUSSION: This is the first study to demonstrate differential longitudinal cognitive training transfer effects to three performance-based physical functioning measures. Future research should investigate mechanisms of far-transfer effects.

Indexed as

CognitionLearningPhysical Functional PerformanceAgedEducationFemaleHumansMaleOutcome Assessment, Health CareTimememory trainingmotor functionrandomized-controlled trialreasoning trainingspeed of processing training

Identifiers

PMID28553791
PMCPMC5453841

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