Rehabilitation of cognition and psychosocial well-being - a better life with epilepsy (ReCaP-ABLE): a protocol for a randomized waitlist-controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Despite advances in the understanding of cognitive dysfunction among people with epilepsy (PWE), evidence for cognitive rehabilitation in epilepsy (CoRE) remains scarce. We present the protocol of a randomized waitlist-controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05934786) of a psychological-behavioral intervention aiming to ameliorate quality of life as well as cognitive functioning in a mixed PWE sample. The study is set at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos and will offer adult PWE six individual and two group sessions led by a certified psychologist and directed toward improving memory, attention, self-regulation, mood and quality of life. The trial is expected to address major gaps in the literature by providing novel evidence on the effectiveness of CoRE in patients with gen

SUBMITTER: Puteikis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10641769 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature