P-bM-tACT program
MCI
DISEASE
The P-bM-tACT program was developed by a multidisciplinary team consisting of a nursing specialist, neuropsychologist, physiotherapist, and occupational therapists following the theoretical approach of the Process Model [In addition to the same health education program on MCI given to the wait-list control group, participants in the intervention group attended 3 supervised P-bM-tACT sessions/week, 60 min/session for 10 weeks in small groups with a maximum number of 6 people per group. All cognitive tasks were trained with cylinder socket blocks. There are 40 wooden cylinders and four sets of wooden socket blocks in total, 10 each per group, and each a cylinder with varying widths and depths, as same as the corresponding wooden socket block (see Before training, we developed a detailed manual, organized into two sections, dealing first with disease knowledge and health education and secondly with training procedures. Three trained registered community nurses (one served as an instructor and the other two served as intervention facilitators) were given an intervention manual with detailed instructions and attended approximately 3 h of video conferencing training. All cognitive tasks commence with in-person instruction provided and supervised by the three trained registered community nurses following a standardized intervention protocol. Participants followed the same training schedule and were reminded via phone call to complete their training program if missing over one week by two research coordinators. Participants who failed to complete the task within the fixed time were given proper technique guides. In addition, extra training was offered for participants not finishing the cognitive training. The research coordinator would oversee the compliance of all participants at each session. All participants received bi-weekly phone calls during follow-up to balance the contact effect and reduce the loss rate.