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Self-Efficacy Enhancement Using a Multicomponent Support Group for Caregivers of Children With DMD/SMA

NCT07356063 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2026-01-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing a multicomponent intervention improves the confidence of caregivers of children with DMD or SMA. The main question it aims to answer is:

Does this intervention increase their self-efficacy scores over 8 weeks time?

Researchers will compare scores at baseline (pre intervention) and after 8 weeks (post intervention)

Conditions

  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Multicomponent Support Group

A multifaceted strategy will be employed. Multiple groups will be created for SMA and DMD patients. Each group will include up to 10 patients caregivers, 1 neurologist, 1 pediatric neurologist, 1 physiotherapist, 1 nutritionist, 1 speech therapist, 1 occupational therapist, 1 epidemiologist and 1 Research Associate. Sessions with each group will integrate peer support, coaching to address the multifaceted needs of patients, and time for open questions and answer sessions with the group. The session with each group will be 1 hours duration. It will start with 5 minutes talk from each expert about the basic needs for SMA and DMD patients. Following the first session, after a few weeks gap, another similar 1 hour session will be conducted which will be open to care givers to ask questions off the specialists or other care givers. In between these 2 sessions, short videos or pictorial clips for care will be sent to the participants to re-enforce what they learnt from sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aga Khan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nashit Irfan Aziz, MBBS, MSc · Aga Khan University

  • Sara Khan, MBBS, MD · Aga Khan University

  • Wardah Khalid, MBBS, MSc, PhD · Aga Khan University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-23
Primary Completion
2026-03-23
Completion
2026-05-23

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