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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2023.2273771
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mild cognitive impairment; verbal working memory training; discourse-based treatment; treatment efficacy; transfer effects; generalisation effects
The study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a discourse-based working memory (WM) protocol for individuals with amnestic-type mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The results showed that the treatment group demonstrated significant improvements in story-retelling outcomes, WM span measures, and controlled word association tasks. The findings suggest that the discourse-based WM treatment is effective for MCI, with transfer effects to frontal lobe functions.
PurposeThe purpose of the study was to investigate the treatment efficacy of a discourse-based working memory (WM) protocol for individuals with the amnestic type of mild cognitive impairment (MCI).MethodThe current study employed a randomised, single-blind design. Fourteen individuals with MCI participated in the study (n = 7 treatment group and n = 7 control group). The treatment protocol consisted of 10 sessions two times per week, and treatment was individually administered only to the treatment group. A Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed to verify pre-post comparisons within each group. Mann-Whitney nonparametric tests were conducted to confirm the differences between the treatment and control groups for the post-treatment scores.ResultThe treatment group demonstrated a significant increase in story-retelling outcomes for both the treated stories and untreated novel stories compared to the control group. Furthermore, the treatment group presented transfer effects for WM span measures and controlled word association tasks.ConclusionThe results indicated that a discourse-based WM treatment protocol is efficacious for the amnestic type of mild cognitive impairment with the effects transferred to frontal lobe functions, as measured by WM tasks and semantic word fluency measures. Further studies are needed to track the trajectory of performance across sessions.
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