Publications by authors named "Azin Farzin"
Article Synopsis
- Prospective Memory (PM) is crucial for remembering future tasks, especially important for older adults, yet limited research exists on effective training for improving PM in this demographic.
- The study involved a controlled trial with 25 healthy older adults, testing a PM training program lasting a total of 12 hours, divided into sessions, to assess the optimal duration for impactful results.
- Findings indicated that a minimum of eight hours of training significantly enhanced PM performance, helping establish guidelines for future interventions aimed at supporting cognitive functions in older adults.
Unlabelled: The surrounding circumstances and environments of Malaysian older adults could make conducting interventions (mainly in terms of clinical or randomized controlled trials) a challenge. Working with older adults and facing cultural issues could be challenging.
Objective: This paper illustrates a significant perspective of some of the challenges faced while conducting a randomized controlled trial exploring the impact of a multi-component intervention that included strategy- and process-based prospective memory (PM) training among Malaysian older adults.
Objective: The main objective of the present trial was to evaluate the efficiency of a preventative multicomponent prospective memory training among healthy older adults.
Design: This study was a two-arm within-participants trial with 4- and 12-wk follow-ups. Allocation ratio was 1:1, and pretraining and posttraining measurements were included.
Objective: Memory impairment is one of the most pervasive cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients. The aim of the current study was to conduct the most comprehensive assessment of how prospective memory (PM) is affected in schizophrenia in comparison with healthy controls.
Methods: In this study, 30 first-episode schizophrenic patients who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders based on the diagnostic interview were recruited from eight regional psychiatric clinics in Iran.