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Project COPE:Managing Dementia at Home

NCT00259454 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 278

Last updated 2010-03-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study tests the effectiveness of an in-home intervention to reduce upset and burden among family caregivers, and decrease nursing home placement. The main hypothesis that will be tested is that compared to control group, subjects, experimental group participants will have enhanced well-being and fewer nursing home placements.

Conditions

  • Dementia, Alzheimer Type

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

In-home intervention

occupational therapy techniques to reduce caregiver stress

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pennsylvania Department of Health

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Thomas Jefferson University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura N Gitlin, Ph.D · Thomas Jefferson University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-04-30
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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