This platform protocol is designed to be flexible so that it is suitable for a wide range of settings within health care systems, for remote settings, and in community settings where it can be integrated into COVID-19 programs and subsequent treatment plans. This protocol is a prospective, multi-center, multi-arm, randomized, controlled platform trial evaluating potential interventions for PASC-mediated cognitive dysfunction. The hypothesis is that PASC associated dysfunction in cognitive domains, such as executive function and attention, may be improved by interventions that selectively focus on enhancing those domains.
Participants will be randomized to one of the intervention appendices that are actively enrolling at the time of randomization. Intervention appendices may be added or removed according to adaptive design and/or emerging evidence. Various interventions will be studied.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
328
BrainHQ platform provides a set of cognitive activities, like puzzles and games, that are cognitively stimulating and actively engage participants but do not continuously and adaptively challenge them. These activities are designed to be a face-valid, active comparison approach to cognitive therapy, thus participants are blinded, attention time is matched, and overall user experience is identical to the active arms.
BrainHQ is an online cognitive training program, and has been used to improve cognitive function among persons with cognitive impairment based on principles of neuroplasticity.
PASC CoRE is a manualized, adaptable cognitive rehabilitation intervention adapted from Goal Management Training and other evidence based programs that improve attention and executive functions, among other cognitive domains.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) will use a device specifically for home-based use. This device delivers a weak electrical current of 2.0 mA passed through two electrodes placed on the scalp to target the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region of the brain. The electrodes are single-use for each session and can be attached to a headset by snapping into place. The device has a user-friendly interface and a large-button keypad, making it is easy to use at home.
tDCS devices used in the sham arm will be pre-programmed to deliver the same ramp up/down at the beginning/end of the 30-minute period as the active arm, except with no current otherwise delivered during the session.
Banner University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Banner University Medical Center- Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California, United States
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, United States
University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OSF Healthcare
Peoria, Illinois, United States
North Shore University Health System/Evanston Hospital
Skokie, Illinois, United States
...and 14 more locations
Total Number of Participants Enrolled in Each Appendix
Appendix-specific outcome measure data will be reported under the associated NCT ID.
Time frame: 160 Days
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