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Technologies to Reduce Caregiver Burden for Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia

NCT02733939 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2019-08-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This randomized controlled trial aims to recruit a total of 320 dyads composed by persons with dementia living in community settings and their primary informal caregivers. In the intervention group, persons with dementia will have a home monitoring kit installed in the household while participants in the control group will receive their usual care. The kit includes home leaving sensors, smoke and water leak sensors, bed sensors as well as automatic lights that monitor the individual's behavior. Alerts (text message and/or phone call) will be sent to the caregiver if anything unusual occurs. All study participants will receive three home visits by project administrators that have received project specific training in order to harmonize data collection. These will take place at enrollment and 3 and 12 months following installation of the home kits. At every home visit, a standardized questionnaire will be administered to all study participants to assess their health, quality of life and resource utilization. The primary outcome of this trial is the amount of informal care support provided by primary informal caregivers to the Person with Dementia.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Home monitoring kit

The home monitoring kits notify the caregivers about potentially dangerous situations, such as when the person with dementia: * leaves the home without notice, since this might occur in a moment of disorientation; * leaves a water tap open; * forgets something on the stove; * gets out of bed during the night and doesn't come back within a certain time interval; * never goes to the bathroom in 24 hours; * never opens refrigerator door in 24 hours. Depending on the personal choice of the study participants, the kit will also : * automatically turn on a light to help avoid a fall during the night; * alert the caregiver when the temperature in the house falls or rises excessively; * act as burglar alarm in some areas of the home.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lund University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos Chiatti, PhD · Lund University and Italian National Institute on Health and Ageing (INRCA)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2019-05-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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