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Group Therapy for Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients in Spanish Elderly Persons Centres

NCT02418806 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 231

Last updated 2016-01-20

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Summary

An experimental study designed to test the effectiveness of a psychological intervention based on group therapy for the caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. The intervention consists of 16 sessions of a cognitive-behavioral psychological group therapy. This study aims to demonstrate that Alzheimer's patients' caregivers can decrease the feelings of burden after been involved in a group therapy.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychotherapy groups

BEHAVIORAL

Self-help groups

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra Poudevida, Psychologist · BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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Diseases

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