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Online Caregiver Psychoeducation and Support for Alzheimer's

NCT00416078 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2015-04-29

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Summary

This study is piloting an internet-based intervention to provide support for caregivers of VA patients with Alzheimer's disease or related memory difficulties (ADRD). Veterans with a clinical diagnosis of ADRD and their caregiver/relatives will be randomized to receive one of two interventions: (1) customary care (cc) and access to an intensive, interactive online education and support website intervention for 6 months, or (2) cc and monthly brief telephone calls with project staff for six month. It is hypothesized that participation in the intensive intervention will result in a reductions in patient problematic behavior and caregiver responses to it, reduced caregiver burden and depression, and improved medication adherence at the end of treatment, and more patients remaining at home through the 12 months post-randomization period..

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

caregiver website support

caregiver access to website support for 6 months embedded in one year of customary care

BEHAVIORAL

caregiver brief supportive phone calls

caregiver brief supportive telephone calls for 6 months embedded in one year of customary care

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Theodore J. Hahn, MD · VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West LA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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