COgnitive Intervention to Restore Attention Using Nature Environment

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure, Cognitive Dysfunction

In brief

Heart failure is a prevalent and serious public health concern with the growing aging population. Patients with heart failure often experience attention impairment that decreases their ability to perform self-care and diminishes their health-related quality of life. In past studies, 15 - 27% of heart failure patients had attention impairment. Attention is fundamental to human activities including self-care management of heart failure. However, cognitive interventions focusing on attention are scarce in heart failure literature. This study focuses on developing a novel cognitive intervention specifically targeting improved attention and testing its efficacy on improving attention, self-care, and health-related quality of life. The investigators in this study are asking the following 3 questions: 1) does the newly developed cognitive intervention using immersive virtual reality technology (Nature-VR) improve attention compared with the control condition (Urban-VR)?; 2) does Nature-VR intervention improve HF self-care and health-related quality of life compared with Urban-VR control condition?; and 3) are selected biological factors associated with attention function in HF? The virtual reality-based cognitive intervention (Nature-VR) can be an efficacious intervention for the patients to use and enjoy without burdening already reduced attention. This study has great potential to improve attention and prevent attention impairment, thereby leading to healthier lives among heart failure patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04485507

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

74

Starts

2020-07-01

Expected to finish

2022-06-08

Last updated by the study team

2024-04-17

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• adults (> 21 years)
• diagnosed with chronic HF Stage C
• able to communicate in English

You may not qualify if…

• uncorrected visual impairment
• major neurological disease (e.g., Alzheimer disease, Parkinson's disease)
• major psychiatric disease (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disease)

Where it is running

• Indiana University School of Nursing — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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