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Oct 1, 2018 · Keywords: jigsaw puzzles, visuospatial cognition, cognitive aging, cognitive intervention, cognitive enrichment, dementia, neurocognitive disorders, cognitive impairment Introduction Preventing cognitive decline in aging such as in mild cognitive impairment and dementia is one of the most relevant medical needs in our aging society ( Winblad et al., 2016 ).
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The jigsaw puzzle group will receive the 30-day jigsaw...
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Oct 1, 2018 · Prevention of neurocognitive disorders is currently one of the greatest unmet medical challenges. The cognitive effects of solving jigsaw puzzles (JPs) have not been studied so far, despite its frequent use as a leisure activity in all age cohorts worldwide. This study aimed at closing this gap betw …
- Patrick Fissler, Olivia Caroline Küster, Daria Laptinskaya, Laura Sophia Loy, Christine A. F. von Ar...
- 2018
Sep 6, 2017 · The jigsaw puzzle group will receive the 30-day jigsaw puzzle intervention and the cognitive health counseling, while the cognitive health counseling group will receive the cognitive health counseling only. We will ask the participants of the cognitive health counseling group not to solve any jigsaw puzzles within the 5-week intervention period.
- Patrick Fissler, Olivia C. Küster, Laura S. Loy, Laura S. Loy, Daria Laptinskaya, Martin J. Rosenfel...
- 10.1186/s13063-017-2151-9
- 2017
- Trials. 2017; 18: 415.
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- Blinding and Strategies to Deal with Expectation and Motivation Effects
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The Ethics Committee of Ulm University approved this study. We will invite individuals interested in participating in the study to a telephone-based interview. Here, they will receive detailed study information and give oral informed consent. A pre-screening will assess eligibility (t1, see Figs. 1 and 2). At an appointment at Ulm University, succe...
The study aims to include 100 participants who we will recruit via local newspaper articles and flyers. Inclusion criteria are 50 years of age or older, unimpaired cognition defined by a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥ 24, the commitment to invest at least 1 h per day for 30 days in solving jigsaw puzzles within a 5-week period, an in...
All outcomes of the study are continuously scaled and we will assess the mean change between baseline (t1) and posttest assessments (t6, approximately 5 weeks after t1). The outcome domains and their specific measurement, and the assessment of participants’ expectations, predictive variables of cognitive decline, and adverse events are described in...
Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups, the jigsaw puzzle group or the cognitive health counseling group (see Fig. 2). The jigsaw puzzle group will receive the 30-day jigsaw puzzle intervention and the cognitive health counseling, while the cognitive health counseling group will receive the cognitive health counseling only. We ...
We will use stratified, blocked randomization to avoid baseline differences in age and cognitive status between the cognitive health counseling group and the jigsaw puzzle group, while at the same time achieving groups of similar sizes. We will stratify participants into two age bands (50–64 years and 65 years and older) and two cognitive status ba...
Outcome assessors will be blinded to group allocation of participants. To prevent disclosure of group assignment by participants, we will remind them at the last telephone interview (t5) not to bring the solved jigsaw puzzles to the posttest assessment. Second, we will remind them at the last telephone interview (t5) and immediately before the post...
To ensure the application of the intention-to-treat principle, great effort must be invested to prevent dropouts, noncompliance, and missing outcome data, which introduce deviation from the randomization scheme [51, 52]. We will use different strategies including good personal contact through the telephone-based counseling; payment of 20€ for prete...
The primary efficacy analysis will be based on mixed-effects models' group × time interaction in an intention-to-treat approach that includes all randomly assigned participants with follow-up observations. Effect sizes will include standardized differences in the pretest-posttest change scores between both groups. Standardization will be based on...
- Patrick Fissler, Olivia C. Küster, Laura S. Loy, Laura S. Loy, Daria Laptinskaya, Martin J. Rosenfel...
- 2017
Puzzle fanatics know that putting together puzzles requires focus and patience. Now medical studies have shown that assembling jigsaw puzzles can help prevent neurocognitive disorders and protect from cognitive aging. It’s true that putting together a puzzle is a simple and entertaining way to have fun, but it can be so much more.
above) to a jigsaw puzzle group or a cognitive health counseling group with a 1:1 allocation ratio in blocks of four, stratified by cognitive status and age. Partici-pants in the jigsaw puzzle group will engage in 30 days of solving jigsaw puzzles (6 days/week over a period of 5 weeks for at least 1 h/day) and receive
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Jan 23, 2024 · First and foremost, completing jigsaw puzzles is a great way to exercise the brain. When working on a puzzle, we engage in various cognitive functions such as problem-solving, memory recollection ...
