نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشگاه اصفهان. دانشکده روانشناسی و علوم تربیتی. گروه روانشناسی
2 دانشگاه اصفهان. دانشکده روانشناسی و علوم تربیتی.گروه روانشناسی
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کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Introduction and purpose: The aim of this research is to design a cognitive rehabilitation software on the basis of attention process model and investigation its effect on attention and executive functions of patients with non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment
Materials and methods: After designing the software program, 30 patients who were diagnosed by non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment trough NUCOG screening and also psychiatric diagnosis and fulfilled the entrance criteria, were assigned accidentally in one of either experimental or control group. After pretest with dual task, CTT-A and CTT-B, Stroop, continuous performance test and tower of London the experimental group received 13-session-cognitive rehabilitation by the designed software and the control group didn’t receive any intervention. The software was designed considering Sohlberg and Mateer Attention Process Training Software and its reliability and validity was confirmed in Iranian elderlies. After the sessions and also 3 months later both groups were assessed as the posttest and the results were analyzed by ANCOVA and Mann-Whitney-U through SPSS software
Results: The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control group in the mean score of errors in both correspondent and incorrespondent selective attention, executive function, time and error in CTT-A alternating attention and time in CTT-B alternating attention and also time and error in divided attention (p<0.05).. But there wasn’t any significant difference between 2 groups in the mean scores of times in selective attention, time and error in sustained attention and error in CTT-B alternating attention and the intervention didn’t cause any significant improvement in these domains.
Conclusion: The results confirmed the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation interventions. The designed cognitive rehabilitation software can cause a significant improvement in attention and executive functions of patients with non amnestic mild cognitive impairment and can be used as an option for intervention by the clinicians
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