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Telephone Support for Dementia Caregivers

NCT00735800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2015-05-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Caring for a patient with dementia is associated with increased feelings of burden and depression. The proposed study will examine the efficacy of Family Intervention: Telephone Tracking - Dementia (FITT-Dementia), a multi-component, family-based, telephone intervention, as a tool to reduce caregiver stress.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family Intervention:Telephone Tracking Support- Caregiver

Family-based problem solving treatment

BEHAVIORAL

Telephone Support

Supportive telephone counseling about caregiving

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • Rhode Island Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Geoffery Tremont, Ph.D · Rhode Island Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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