Tele-Medicine Based and Self-Administered Interactive Exercise Program (Tele-Exergame) to Improve Cognition in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Feasibility, Acceptability, and Proof-of-Concept Study

Najafi, B (通讯作者),Baylor Coll Med, Michael E DeBakey Dept Surg, Interdisciplinary Consortium Adv Mot Performance i, Houston, TX 77030 USA.
2022-12
Improved life expectancy is increasing the number of older adults who suffer from motor-cognitive decline. Unfortunately, conventional balance exercise programs are not tailored to patients with cognitive impairments, and exercise adherence is often poor due to unsupervised settings. This study describes the acceptability and feasibility of a sensor-based in-home interactive exercise system, called tele-Exergame, used by older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Our tele-Exergame is specifically designed to improve balance and cognition during distractive conditioning while a telemedicine interface remotely supervises the exercise, and its exercises are gamified balance tasks with explicit augmented visual feedback. Fourteen adults with MCI or dementia (Age = 68.1 +/- 5.4 years, 12 females) participated and completed exergame twice weekly for six weeks at their homes. Before and after 6 weeks, participants' acceptance was assessed by Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) questionnaire, and participants' cognition and anxiety level were evaluated by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), respectively. Results support acceptability, perceived benefits, and positive attitudes toward the use of the system. The findings of this study support the feasibility, acceptability, and potential benefit of tele-Exergame to preserve cognitive function among older adults with MCI and dementia.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:23
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
Baylor College of Medicine; Baylor College of Medicine; Baylor College of Medicine
资助机构
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging(United States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Aging (NIA))
资助信息
This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (award number: R44AG067909), with subawards from BioSensics LLC. The funding sources had no role in study design, methods, data collection and analysis, or submission of the results.
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
5
2013以来使用计数
5
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-12
DOI
10.3390/ijerph192316361
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
dementia exercise telehealth exergame cognitive impairment gamification Alzheimer's disease
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health