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Engage Psychotherapy to Promote Connectedness in Caregivers

NCT04176601 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2025-02-25

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Summary

The Engage Coaching Project is a Stage 1 intervention development study. This study asks: "what behavioral strategies are needed to help socially disconnected caregivers with significant barriers to increasing connectedness?" This study uses a mixed methods approach to adapt a brief behavioral intervention-Social Engage psychotherapy-for use with socially disconnected caregivers. The ultimate goal is for Social Engage psychotherapy to be offered as a second step in a stepped care approach for caregivers who do not demonstrate an adequate response to a single-session psychoeducation plus resources intervention. Social Engage Psychotherapy helps caregivers bolster motivation for increasing connectedness, teaches problem solving skills, and provides behavioral practice with social engagement. Up to 8 brief sessions (typically 30 minutes) are provided weekly over no more than three months. This is a single-arm clinical trial of Social Engage psychotherapy, with up to 30 participants.

Conditions

  • Loneliness
  • Social Isolation
  • Caregiver Burnout

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Engage coaching

Participants will complete up to 8 weekly individual Social Engage psychotherapy sessions. Participants will be allotted up to 3 months to complete all sessions, a time-frame that allows for two weeks without meeting to address life stressors such as illnesses that may pop up. All sessions are provided via phone or videocall (Zoom). The first and last session are longer - up to 60 minutes if needed. Middle sessions are shorter (20-45 minutes). Engage is a stepped care psychotherapy in that the simplest strategy is taught first-action planning (a derivative of problem solving therapy)-and "barrier strategies" are added only if needed. Action plans are designed to address loneliness and social isolation in the context of caregiving demands.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Rochester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kimberly A Van Orden, PhD · University of Rochester

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-08
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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