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Health enSuite Caregivers: an App-based Treatment for Distressed Caregivers of Persons With Moderate Dementia

NCT04944420 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2026-01-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Health enSuite Caregivers is an e-health program designed to meet some of the most common needs of caregivers of persons with dementia, including information about dementia and dementia care, caregivers' emotional health, formal or informal help received from others. It also recommends specific strategies to promote wellbeing and provides tools to help caregivers implement these strategies in their everyday lives. Health enSuite Caregivers is available online and as a smartphone app. Its development was informed by reviews of caregivers' needs and existing commercially available apps F. A systematic search of commercially available smartphone applications for caregivers found that many apps did not consider each caregiver's unique needs and were limited to psychoeducational content (no tools for self-management). Furthermore, most existing programs have not been rigorously tested or lack evidence to support their effectiveness.

Conditions

  • Caregiver Burnout

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health enSuite Caregivers

Advice within Health enSuite Caregivers is organized into 5 priority areas: Taking Care of Yourself (Self-care), Support for You (Support), Supporting the Person Living with Dementia (Characteristics of Persons Living with Dementia), Communication, and Time Management. Under "My Priority Areas", participants will see these in order from highest to lowest need, based on their answers to the needs assessment. Each priority area contains small subtopics and specific tips for things to "Try" or "Avoid". Navigation through the priority areas is user directed and at the participant's discretion. The goal is to make the information they need easy to access.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IWK Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patrick McGrath · IWK Health Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-15
Primary Completion
2027-01-15
Completion
2027-08-31

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