This study is designed to to test the technical feasibility of encouraging interaction with a mobile smartphone software package (mHealth app) for training aspects of executive function and cognition.
The purpose of this human subjects study is to test the technical feasibility of interaction with a mobile smartphone software package (mHealth app) for training in aspects of executive function and cognition. The study participants are healthy subjects recruited online, with consent secured at the time of screening, and with enrollees assigned to High or Low groups on the basis of initial screening task scores. Subjects are requested to participate in directed interaction activities for up to 8 weeks, with measures primarily evaluating feasibility of MHealth app package task completion and secondarily evaluating the cognitive effect of activities.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
124
Smartphone based application designed to engage user executive functions
Kansas State DPS
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Task Completion Rate
Percentage of participants completing minimum required weekly interactions
Time frame: At 8 weeks
Change in Task Performance
Change in Human Hypothetical Choice scale (higher scores indicate a better outcome, minimum value 0 to maximum value 1), calculated as value at 8 weeks minus value at 1 week
Time frame: At 8 weeks
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