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Twitter Based Social Support for Hispanic and Black Dementia Caregivers

NCT03865498 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 966

Last updated 2025-01-15

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Summary

The prevalence of dementia is higher in Hispanics and African Americans than non-Hispanic Whites. Moreover, dementia caregivers often experience loneliness as well decreased health status. The expansion of social media use among Hispanics and African Americans, particularly Twitter - a short message service - offers great promise for improving social support. This study aims to evaluate changes of discussion topics, sentiment and networking styles (i.e., number of followers) among anonymous followers of our two Twitter networks; the African American/Black dementia caregiver group and the Hispanic dementia caregiver group.

Conditions

  • Loneliness
  • Emotional Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Twitter for Hispanic caregivers

This group will be asked to follow and use (i.e., retweet, reply, like) our Hispanic Twitter network for social support

BEHAVIORAL

Twitter for African American caregivers

This group will be asked to follow and use (i.e., retweet, reply, like) our African American Twitter network for social support.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sunmoo Yoon, PhD · Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-12
Primary Completion
2023-10-31
Completion
2023-11-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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