University of California, Los Angeles
The goal of this clinical trial is to memory drilling works in improving the ability to remember to do something later in treatment-seeking veterans. The main question it aims to answer is: Does adding memory drilling to intensive treatment programs improve the patient's ability to remember to do something later? Researchers will compare typical standardized memory training to the memory training with drilling to see if drilling improves the veterans' ability to remember tasks they are supposed to do later. Participants will: * complete the Operation Mend intensive treatment program with either standard care (either with or without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder \[PTSD\] focused trauma therapy) or standard care + memory drilling * complete a virtual memory assessment at entrance, exit, and three months post exit. This assessment will include questionnaires, interviews, and computerized and naturalistic memory tasks.
Treatment-seeking veterans who come for diagnostics and/or treatment to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Operation Mend show a high level of memory concern. To address this issue, the veterans receive training in evidence-informed compensatory strategies. However, a high level of memory concern remains, and this study aims to investigate the efficacy of adding memory drills to the treatment program. There is mixed evidence in the literature about whether memory drills, which tend to show improvement in computerized cognitive tasks, generalize to naturalistic forms of memory. Speci…
Inclusion Criteria: * Only patients that are already accepted and scheduled to participate in an Operation Mend BRAIN Intensive Treatment Program and PTSD Intensive Treatment Program are eligible to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with acute substance abuse disorders are not accepted into Operation Mend programs and are therefore excluded from the study. * For logistical reasons, patients who are scheduled for arrival at the ITP sooner than 2.5 or 3 weeks are not eligible to participate. * Patients who do not have tablet, iPad, or computer access are not eligible to…
The experimental group will receive the additional intervention during their seven sessions with their care providers. The intervention is computerized "memory drills" training. This training includes the completion of a list learning memory task (HVLT) and then a PM practice task conducted on the computer at each session.
Participants learn compensatory strategies to assist with their memory performance. This involves both external strategies, such as calendering and setting alarms, and internal strategies, like imagery and mnemonics.
This is PTSD-targeted therapy.
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