The MentalPlus® for Assessment and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Function After Remission of the Symptoms of COVID-19

University of Sao Paulo200 enrolled

Overview

This study evaluates and rehabilitates the cognitive functions of attention, memory, visual perception, language, and executive by the mentalPlus® digital game of COVID-19 surviving patients after remission of symptoms.

Subjects who contracted COVID-19 and present remission of symptoms will be studied, with different age groups, illiterate or literate, of both genders and with different socio-demographic characteristics. The volunteers will be submitted to the application of MentalPlus® to assess cognitive functions and SF-8® to assess Quality of Life.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Cognitive Impairment Covid19 Cognitive Dysfunction Depression, Anxiety Quality of Life

Interventions

The use of the MentalPlus® digital game for assessment and rehabilitation of cognitive function after remission of the symptoms of COVID-19DEVICE

Cognitive assessment and rehabilitation will be carried out on volunteers who have healed from COVID-19.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 8 YearsMax age: 88 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients affected by COVID-19 with or without comorbidity for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cancer, asthma between the ages of 8 and 88 years of both sexes and illiterate or literate. Exclusion Criteria: * Disability for the instrument's use: limitation for the mobility of the upper limbs, presence of significant mental retardation that compromises the understanding of the instructions for the use of MentalPlus®, significant lowering of visual acuity.

Locations (2)

Livia Stocco Sanches Valentin

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Livia Stocco Sanches Valentin

São Paulo, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Assessment of cognitive functions after COVID-19

The evaluation of cognitive functions by the digital game MentalPlus® (a scale of assessment and cognitive rehabilitation) will take place as follows: Scores range from 0 \[Not improved\] to 10 \[fully improved\] at cognitive functions memory, attention and executive after training with Scale. This game is already validated and standardized for the global population. The test takes 25 minutes to play, is playful and self-explanatory. It has twelve themes with cognitive functions: short and long-term memory; selective, alternate and concentrated attention, inhibitory control of executive function and visual perception. MentalPlus® is completely randomized in its phases and themes. Therefore, the game can be used for cognitive assessment with a single theme (25 minutes of execution) or rehabilitation on 10 more themes and a final theme for reassessment of cognitive functions.

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Rehabilitation of cognitive functions after COVID-19

Rehabilitation of cognitive functions: executive, attention, memory, visual perception, language, after the remission of the symptoms of COVID-19. MentalPlus® will be used in order to rehabilitate the cognitive functions of patients who have dysfunctions after COVID-19. The patient will play on alternate days (every other day) a theme of the game and will be rehabilitated through its 10 themes. At the end of these 10 themes, the patient will be reassessed by the last theme of the game, comprising a total of 12 themes. Each theme lasts for 25 minutes each.

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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