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Decreased Empathy and Emotion Recognition in Patients With Neurodegenerative Disease

NCT04635540 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2021-04-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates an educational brochure tailored to caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease dementia, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal dementia, and vascular disease dementia. The goal of the brochure is educating caregivers about the decreased ability to detect emotion and decreased empathy that can be seen in dementia, increasing caregiver competence in providing care, and teaching caregivers ways to manage over time that lessens burden and improves quality of life.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Brochure

Educational brochure on decreased empathy and emotion recognition in patients with neurodegenerative disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carmela Tartaglia, MD · University Health Network, Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-22
Primary Completion
2022-07-31
Completion
2022-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

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