Table 1. Schematic diagram of participant timeline.
Assessments for all participants | |||
Baseline study visit | HD-DRUM training intervention (completed at home with support and reminders) or control time period | Follow-up study visit | |
Day 1 | 8-week intervention period | End of week 8 (+ 2 weeks) | |
Cohort Descriptive information | |||
MOCA* | X | ||
TOPF | X | ||
Self-report questionnaire | |||
Patient Health Questionnaire-8 | X | X | |
HD-DRUM participant evaluation survey | X | ||
Paper and pencil tasks | |||
Stroop task | X | X | |
Verbal fluency | X | X | |
SDMT | X | X | |
Categorical fluency | X | X | |
Verbal trails (letter-digit switching) | X | X | |
Computerised tasks | |||
N-back Audio (letters) | X | X | |
N-back Visuospatial (square changing positions in grid) | X | X | |
N-back dual (audio and visuospatial) | X | X | |
Flanker task | X | X | |
Q-Motor assessments | |||
Speeded finger tapping (left/right index finger) | X | X | |
Finger metronome tapping (left/right index finger) | X | X | |
Pointing and tapping (dominant hand) | X | X | |
Dual (pointing and tapping with dominant hand, speeded finger tapping with opposite hand) | X | X | |
Speeded foot tapping (left/right) | X | X | |
Metronome foot tapping (left/right) | X | X | |
Brain imaging | |||
T1-weighted MPRAGE | X | X | |
msHARDI | X | X | |
qMT | X | X | |
mcDESPOT | X | X | |
HD-DRUM group | |||
HD-DRUM training intervention supported by email and telephone reminders | X | ||
Control group | |||
Standard care, usual activities | X |
HD, Huntington’s disease; mcDESPOT, multicomponent-driven equilibrium single pulse observation of T1 and T2; MOCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment; msHARDI, multi-shell high angular resolution diffusion imaging; qMT, quantitative magnetisation transfer; SDMT, Symbol Digit Modalities Test; T1-MPRAGE, T1-weighted Magnetisation Prepared-Rapid Gradient Echo Sequence; TOPF, test of premorbid functioning