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Self-Management Intervention: Considering Needs & Preferences of Dementia Caregivers (Caregiver Career Study)

NCT04603482 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 328

Last updated 2025-05-13

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Summary

How do varying levels of participation in selecting self-management interventions (ranging from no input into the selection to selection based on need or preference) affect health risks and physical and mental health over time in family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's and other dementia disorders? Caregivers will be randomized to 1) information on diversional activities (attention control); 2) self-management intervention based on need (SM-need); or 3) self-management intervention of their preference (SM-preference).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Resourcefulness training

Resourcefulness training is a cognitive behavioral intervention that consists of teaching and reinforcing personal (self-help) and social (help-seeking) strategies to overcome adversity.

BEHAVIORAL

Biofeedback

Biofeedback training combines teaching slow, deep, paced breathing with real-time tracking to increase an individual's heart rate variability and ultimately improve self-regulation.

BEHAVIORAL

Attention Control

Participants randomly assigned to this intervention will receive suggested Diversional Activities, presented in an audiovisual format.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Case Western Reserve University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jaclene A Zauszniewski, PhD · Case Western Reserve University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-08
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2024-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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