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Functional skills training

Functional skills training has been studied in 1 paper since 2024: 1 trial in people. The newest paper, Dec 4, 2024: “Awareness of baseline functioning and sensitivity to improvement in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment receiving a computerized functional skills training program”.

Intervention

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See all 1 papers on functional skills training

At a glance

The findings reach people, from one lab or study. 1 lab in 1 country.

“Training-related Improvements were found for all variables for both groups, all p < .001, all d> .54.”
Awareness of baseline functioning and sensitivity to improvement in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment receiving a computerized functional skills training programInternational psychogeriatrics2024doi:10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100025

None of its findings points the other way.

Humans: a single group. Cells, worms or flies and mice: nothing yet.

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Company ties: findings with an author at a company, or from a paper whose competing-interests statement declares ties to one.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami and 2 more
  • 2 of 2 findings with company ties
  • Human trial1

Studies in people

1 study gave functional skills training to people and measured what changed.

What changedDesignPeopleSource

up: Improves functional capacityall p < .001, all d> .54

no change: Has no effect on self-reported functional abilities

Randomized trialup to 12 weeksOlder adults; in older people with MCI or normal cognitionInternational psychogeriatrics, Dec 4, 2024

What did studies of functional skills training find?

2

Studies of functional skills training measured 2 outcomes; the most studied are self-reported functional abilities (1 study) and functional capacity (1).

Self-reported functional abilities

no changein humans1

1 study

  1. Functional skills training showed no clear effect on self-reported functional abilities in older people with MCI or normal cognition.

    “no self-reported changes in either global or specific self-reports were significant for either sample.”

    Human trialin older people with MCI or normal cognitionup to 12 weeks

    Awareness of baseline functioning and sensitivity to improvement in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment receiving a computerized functional skills training program

    International psychogeriatrics

Functional capacity

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Functional skills training improves functional capacity in older people with MCI or normal cognition (all p < .001, all d> .54).

    “Training-related Improvements were found for all variables for both groups, all p < .001, all d> .54.”

    Human trialin older people with MCI or normal cognitionup to 12 weeks

    Awareness of baseline functioning and sensitivity to improvement in older people with and without mild cognitive impairment receiving a computerized functional skills training program

    International psychogeriatrics

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