Clinical trial NCT02697721: Powerful Tools for Caregivers of Dementia Patients
Official title: Optimization of "Powerful Tools for Caregivers" of Dementia Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Caregivers
Dementia
Alzheimer Disease
Keywords: Caregivers
Behavioral symptoms
Dementia
Alzheimer disease
Physical activity
Depressive symptoms
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Lead sponsor: Florida State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Florida Department of Health
First posted: 2016-03-03
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to examine if a psycho-educational intervention for caregivers of patients with dementia will decrease caregiver burden, increase caregiver physical activity, and decrease the reporting of behavioral and psychological symptoms of the person with dementia.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Caregiver lives with or provides care for the care recipient for an average of at least 4 hours per day.
* Care for an individual with a physician diagnosis of dementia (mild to moderate stage of dementia).
* Care for a care recipient who experiences behavioral symptoms that bother or upset the caregiver moderately, very much, or extremely. The occurrence of problematic behaviors and caregivers' reactions will be assessed with 6-items adapted from the Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist (Teri et al 1992).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Care for a care recipient who is bed-bound or has advanced dementia: Functional Assessment Staging (FAST)(Sclan \& Reisberg 1992) stage 7.
* Caregiver's cognitive, hearing, visual, or other physical impairments lead to difficulty with informed consent process, assessment, or participation in the intervention.
* Caregiver who is involved in another trial that addresses caregiver burden or behavioral expressions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Caregiver Burden
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Frequency and reaction to care recipient behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Frequency of care recipient agitated behaviors
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Activity parameters as assessed by FitBit
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Depressive symptoms
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Caregiving Self-Efficacy
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Self-rated health
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Life satisfaction
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Perceived change
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in care recipients
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tallahassee
country: United States
facility: Florida State University College of Medicine
state: Florida
Study officials:
References:
citation: Terracciano A, Artese A, Yeh J, Edgerton L, Granville L, Aschwanden D, Luchetti M, Glueckauf RL, Stephan Y, Sutin AR, Katz P. Effectiveness of Powerful Tools for Caregivers on Caregiver Burden and on Care Recipient Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020 Aug;21(8):1121-1127.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2019.11.011. Epub 2019 Dec 19.