Status:

RECRUITING

ECOCAPTURE for the Assessment of Apathy Under Real-life Conditions

Lead Sponsor:

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Conditions:

Frontotemporal Dementia, Behavioral Variant

Alzheimer Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

40-85 years

Brief Summary

ECOCAPTURE@HOME is a study which is currently being developed with the objective to capture the behavioral signature of apathy in everyday life context through remote monitoring of participants' behav...

Detailed Description

Apathy, a common neuropsychiatric symptom associated with dementia, has a strong impact on both patients' and caregivers' quality of life. In spite of its debilitating consequences, apathy is still po...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion Criteria for patients:
  • Diagnosis of bvFTD according to Rascovsky's international criteria for the bvFTD group / diagnosis of AD according to Dubois's international criteria for the AD group;
  • No evidence of any other cerebral pathology;
  • A Mini-Mental State Evaluation (MMSE) score superior or equal to 10 (to minimise the effect of confounding factors related to very severe cognitive impairment);
  • Aged between 40 and 85;
  • No evidence of any psychiatric condition and a Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) score inferior to 20 (to avoid confusion between depression and apathy);
  • No evidence of excessive consumption of psychotropic drugs - for instance benzodiazepines, sleeping pills, etc. (due to their tranquilising effect);
  • No major physical disability disrupting mobility;
  • No heart pacemaker (which would compromise heart rate measuring).
  • Inclusion Criteria for caregivers and partners of healthy control dyads:
  • Aged between 40 and 85;
  • No evidence of any psychiatric condition;
  • A MADRS score inferior to 20;
  • No evidence of excessive consumption of psychotropic drugs;
  • No major physical disability disrupting mobility;
  • No heart pacemaker.
  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • Persons in detention by judicial or administrative decision
  • Person who is subject to a legal protection order
  • Person submitted to an exclusion period due to the participation to another research

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    May 20 2022

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    May 1 2025

    Estimated Enrollment :

    120 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT04865172

    Start Date

    May 20 2022

    End Date

    May 1 2025

    Last Update

    November 21 2024

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    ICM, Hôpital Salpêtrière

    Paris, France, 75013

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