Jasmine A Berry, Joan Cranford, Rachel Powell
The Stress of Advancement: A Nurse Practitioner's Exploration in Providing Culturally Competent Obesity Prevention Counseling in Black Women
Health promotion practice
common yet untested assumption cognitive training children activities adaptive difficulty adjusted individuals performance order maximize improvements untrained tasks known transfer working memory training provides ideal testbed systematically examine assumption one widely studied domains cognitive training literature critical childrens learning including following instructions reasoning trial aimed examine childrens outcomes working memory training using adaptive selfselect child selects difficulty level stepwise difficulty level increases incrementally approaches setting difficulty training activities compared active control condition immediately 6month postintervention aim exploratory hypothesized children allocated working memory training condition would show greater improvements 1 near transfer measures compared intermediate far transfer measures 2 immediately postintervention compared 6month postintervention doubleblinded activecontrolled parallelgroup randomized trial aimed recruit 128 children aged 7 11 years 1 metropolitan primary school melbourne australia following baseline testing children randomized 1 4 conditions adaptive selfselect stepwise working memory training active control experimental intervention embedded minecraft developed teachers deliver class 2 consecutive weeks 10 20minute sessions working memory training comprised 2 training activities processing demands similar daily activities backward span following instructions control comprised creative activities pre postintervention children completed set working memory tests near intermediate transfer ravens standard progressive matrices far transfer determine training outcomes well motivation questionnaires determine motivations toward learning intervention similar across conditions caregivers completed adhdrating scale5 measure childs attention far transfer statistical analysis include traditional null hypothesis significance testing bayesian methods quantify evidence null alternative hypotheses data collection concluded december 2022 data currently processed analyzed trial determine whether adaptive approach setting difficulty training activities maximizes cognitive training outcomes children trial several strengths adopts best practices cognitive training studies design methods analysis plan uses range measures detect discrete levels transfer 6month postintervention assessment appropriately powered uses experimental working memory training intervention based current understanding cognitive mechanisms training findings inform future research design cognitive training interventions highlight value evidencebased principles cognitive training australian new zealand clinical trials registry actrn12621000990820 httpswwwanzctrorgauactrn12621000990820aspx derr110219647496