Strengthening Mental Abilities With Relational Training (SMART) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS): A Feasibility Trial

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

60

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 7, 2022

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2024

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2024

Conditions
Multiple Sclerosis
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

SMART

SMART (Strengthening Mental Abilities Through Relational Training) is a web-based cognitive training program that directly trains 'relational skills' - skills necessary to understand how concepts relate to one another, which underpin complex cognition.

BEHAVIORAL

Sham brain training (Sudoku)

Sudoku was selected to control for expectancy effects based on popular conceptions that it broadly improves cognitive functions, coupled with little evidence supporting this notion, and its use as an active control in similar trials.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

RECRUITING

Nottingham Centre for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammation, Nottingham

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Exeter

OTHER

collaborator

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

OTHER

collaborator

University of Nottingham

OTHER

lead

University of Lincoln

OTHER

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