The Active Brains Study - Feasibility Trial
Research type
Research Study
Full title
REducing and preventing COgnitive impairment iN older age groups (The RECON Programme) Feasibility trial
IRAS ID
239448
Contact name
Paul Little
Contact email
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN00000000
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 1 days
Research summary
We have made a new website called ‘Active Brains’ which aims to help older adults to look after their brain and body health, to prevent dementia. The website will help older adults to make simple changes such as getting more active, playing brain training games and finding ways to eat more healthily.
This research project will test how easy to use and helpful the website is. It will also test how easy and useful the study procedures that we plan to use in our larger main trial are. This way we can make sure that we have everything right before we go ahead with the larger main trial. We will be testing the website in two groups of people: 1) older adults with a few problems with things like remembering or concentrating (known as cognitive decline), 2) older adults without any of these problems. Both groups of people will be randomly put into one of three groups: 1) care as they usually receive it from their GP practice, or 2) the Active Brains website, or 3) the Active Brains website plus a bit of support from a trained person (over the phone or by email).
The findings of this study will mean that we can spot any changes which are important to make to the website, the support (in the third group) or the study procedures. Any changes will be made before we go on to our main trial (which will be a separate ethics application).
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/NW/0341
Date of REC Opinion
20 Jun 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion