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Decisions About Cancer Screening in Alzheimer's Disease

NCT03282097 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 442

Last updated 2025-08-11

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Summary

The Decisions about Cancer screening in Alzheimer's Disease (DECAD) study tests if an evidence-based decision aid for dementia caregivers can support decision-making about mammography and improve the quality of medical decision-making about breast cancer screening. This large randomized controlled trial will recruit up to 450 dyads (900 individual participants) of older women with dementia and a family caregiver, for a goal of 426 dyad baselines (852 individual participants).

Conditions

  • Cancer, Breast
  • Alzheimer Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

DECAD decision aid

A mammography decision aid directed toward family caregivers of older women with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias to assist with decisions about breast cancer screening.

OTHER

Home safety guide

The home safety guide to provide tips about important actions older adults can take to prevent falls, poisoning, and bathroom hazards and protection against abuse, fire and other related hazards.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Indiana University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nicole Fowler, PhD · Indiana University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-12-01
Primary Completion
2023-04-06
Completion
2024-07-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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