Clinical trial NCT06635876: Caregivers Preparing for Their Own Health Care Emergency
Official title: Piloting an Online Emergency Preparedness Toolkit for Caregivers Preparing for Their Own Health Care Emergency
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Caregiver Burden
Lead sponsor: University of California, Davis
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2024-10-10
Enrollment: 68
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The proposed research will develop and test an online Emergency Preparedness Toolkit to help caregivers prepare for their own unexpected health events. Caregivers of persons with dementia often ignore their own health needs as their primary focus is the care of the person with dementia. This can lead to a caregiver delaying their own care and subsequently emergent health events. The Emergency Preparedness Toolkit provides guidance to the caregiver as to how to identify and transfer care to a standby caregiver. The goal is to provide a caregiver with the security and comfort that the person with dementia will be well cared for while they care for their own health needs.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be 18 years of age or older at the time of signing the informed consent
* Must self-identify as the spouse or partner of the PWD
* Must provide some caregiving to a PWD
* Must live in the same dwelling as the PWD

Exclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of dementia
* Unable to use or does not have access to a computer
* Complete deafness or blindness and/or unable to use a telephone
* Condition that prevents them from performing caregiving duties or providing physical/emotional support to the PWD
* Unable to follow directions
* Unable to read or write in English
* Participation in prior study involving the EPT

Primary outcomes:
measure: Completion of the EPT six weeks from the baseline visit
timeFrame: Six weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Identification and engagement of a standby caregiver six weeks from the baseline visit
timeFrame: Six weeks
measure: Change in caregiver preparedness from baseline to Month 3
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Change in caregiver confidence from baseline to Month 3
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Change in caregiving self-efficacy from baseline to Month 3
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Qualitative data and theme identification from participant experience surveys and EPT-C coaching session recordings
timeFrame: Three months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sacramento
country: United States
facility: University of California - Davis
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, Davis
name: Rebecca S Boxer, MD, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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