Preventing Cognitive Decline in Black Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transition state between normal cognitive aging and dementia that increases the risk for progressive cognitive decline. Preventing cognitive decline is a public health priority.

Objective

To determine whether behavioral activation prevents cognitive and functional decline over 2 years in black individuals with MCI.

Design, setting, and participants

Single-center, single-masked, attention-controlled randomized clinical trial. Participants were enrolled from June 21, 2011, to October 3, 2014, and follow-up ended December 13, 2016. Community-based recruitment and treatment of black individuals older than 65 years with amnestic MCI. Volunteer sample of 1390 persons with memory complaints were screened. Overall, 536 individua

SUBMITTER: Rovner BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583200 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature