Farmani F, Pourshahriar H, Nejati V, Shokri O. Investigating the Effectiveness of Cognitive Enhancement on Quality of Life in the Elderly With Mild Cognitive Impairment. PCP 2023; 11 (2) :177-186
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1- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. , farmani_fardin@yahoo.com
2- Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
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Objective: Cognitive enhancement is a noninvasive brain treatment that has the potential to improve cognitive deficits in patients with symptoms of cognitive impairment, such as mild cognitive impairment. Studies have not investigated the effectiveness of this method on people’s quality of life; therefore, this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive enhancement on the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
Methods: As a quasi-experimental study, the authors utilized the pre-test-post-test design with follow-up. The statistical population of the study was elderly with mild cognitive impairment. A total of 40 senior patients with cognitive abnormalities who were referred to the Rehabilitation Clinic of the Payambaran Hospital in Tehran City, Iran, were picked at random and assigned into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group underwent 12 sessions of cognitive enhancement. To measure the variables, the LEIPAD QoLquestionnaire was employed. The data were analyzed using the two-way repeated measures analysis of variance via the SPSS software, version 25.
Results: In terms of the post-test quality of life, the results revealed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups. The QoLof the elderly with mild cognitive impairment was impacted by cognitive improvement. The follow-up studies also demonstrated that the observed disparities between the groups were persistent over time (P<0.05).
Conclusion: In addition to affecting the cognitive abilities of the brain, cognitive enhancement can affect the QoLof the elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
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• The possibility of cognitive problems in the elderly is high.
• Mild cognitive impairment is one of the disorders associated with the elderly.
• Mild cognitive impairment in the elderly is associated with a decline in quality of life (QoL).
• Cognitive enhancement improves the quality of life in the elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
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Population aging has increased worldwide and has many social, economic and health implications. Aging is associated with a decline in cognitive function. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate stage between cognitive decline expected in natural aging and early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The effects of MCI go beyond cognition and negatively affect the QoL of the elderly. Therefore, it is very important to pay attention to the improvement of this problem. The main approach in cognitive therapies is the cognitive enhancement approach. Cognitive rehabilitation is a treatment method whose main goal is to improve the patient's cognitive function and defects such as memory, executive function, social understanding, concentration and attention. Cognitive rehabilitation is effective in improving cognitive symptoms and improving the QoL of the elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
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Rehabilitation Received: 2022/12/9 | Accepted: 2023/01/16 | Published: 2023/04/1