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Penn State Emergency Medicine CarES: Care-partner Evaluation and Sourcing in the Emergency Department

NCT07461168 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2026-04-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Care partners of people living with dementia often experience ongoing stress and unmet support needs. This study evaluates the feasibility of a low-intensity, supportive education and resource intervention for care partners who previously participated in an observational study.

Participants complete a baseline phone interview and a short stress journaling activity, followed by a six-week series of automated educational and supportive messages delivered by text message or email. Participants may also take part in an optional peer support focus group. The study examines caregiver stress, resilience, engagement with resources, and participant feedback to inform future caregiver support interventions.

Conditions

  • Dementia
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Caregiver Burden
  • Caregiver Burden of People With Dementia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Care Partner Support and Education Messaging

Care partners receive a low-intensity, supportive intervention consisting of automated educational and supportive messages delivered by text message (SMS) or email over a six-week period. Messages include brief dementia caregiving education, stress and grief management strategies, and links to publicly available caregiving and community support resources. Participants are asked to complete brief check-in surveys to assess engagement, perceived usefulness of the materials, and caregiving stressors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NYU Langone Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michelle Fischer, MD, MPH · Penn State College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-01
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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