Cognitive training improves sleep quality and cognitive function among older adults with insomnia.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

To investigate the effect of an eight-week, home-based, personalized, computerized cognitive training program on sleep quality and cognitive performance among older adults with insomnia.

Design

Participants (n = 51) were randomly allocated to a cognitive training group (n = 34) or to an active control group (n = 17). The participants in the cognitive training group completed an eight-week, home-based, personalized, computerized cognitive training program, while the participants in the active control group completed an eight-week, home-based program involving computerized tasks that do not engage high-level cognitive functioning. Before and after training, all participants' sleep was monitored for one week by an actigraph and their cognitive performance was e

SUBMITTER: Haimov I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3618113 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature