Designing clinical trials for assessing the effects of cognitive training and physical activity interventions on cognitive outcomes: The Seniors Health and Activity Research Program Pilot (SHARP-P) Study, a randomized controlled trial

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Legault, Claudine ^a   Jennings, Janine M ^b   Katula, Jeffrey A ^b   Dagenbach, Dale ^b   Gaussoin, Sarah A ^a   Sink, Kaycee M ^c   Rapp, Stephen R ^a,c   Rejeski, W Jack ^b   Shumaker, Sally A ^a   Espeland, Mark A ^a  

^a Public Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PILOT PROJECTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957477349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-27     Document Type: Article

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