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Evaluation of "My Tools 4 Care" for Family Caregivers of Persons With Dementia

NCT02428387 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 199

Last updated 2017-05-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

With the number of Canadians with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) growing, supporting family care partners of persons with ADRD is critical. Family caregivers provide about 90 per cent of in-home care for persons with ADRD, and the care is often difficult due to co-morbidities in persons with ADRD. Family caregivers of older persons with ADRD and multiple chronic conditions (MCC) experience significant, complex, distressing transitions such as changes to their environment, roles and relationships, physical and mental health, isolation, and taking on new tasks. An online Transition Toolkit (My Tools 4 Care) was developed for family caregivers of persons with ADRD and MCC living at home, to support caregivers through transitions and increase their self-efficacy, hope, and quality of life (QOL).

Through this pragmatic mixed methods randomized controlled trial the investigators expect to find that family caregivers receiving the online My Tools 4 Care Toolkit will show greater improvement in hope, self-efficacy and QOL, at no additional cost from a societal perspective, compared with those in an educational control group. Following baseline data collection 180 participants will be randomly assigned to one of the groups with repeated measures at one, three and six months.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

My Tools 4 Care

On-line self-administered (My Tools 4 Care) transition toolkit includes interactive activities and resources to help caregivers deal with their transitions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wendy Duggleby, PhD · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2017-04-12
Completion
2017-04-12

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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