Clinical trial NCT02300584: Distance Savvy: Testing Tele-Savvy, a Distance Dementia Family Caregiver Education Program
Official title: Distance Savvy: Testing Tele-Savvy, a Distance Dementia Family Caregiver Education Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Alzheimer's Disease
Depression
Lead sponsor: Emory University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-11-25
Enrollment: 42
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to refine and test the web-based delivery of a well-established in-person group program that provides information and education to informal caregivers (family and friends) of persons with Alzheimer's disease (or related illnesses).

Detailed description: The pilot project proposed will allow the investigators to use telehealth methods to deliver the Savvy Caregiver, an evidence-based dementia caregiver psychoeducation program, to family caregivers of community-dwelling persons with dementing illnesses (PWD) for whom attending in-person meetings poses difficulties. The program - named Tele-Savvy - uses iPad and PC technology and on-line conferencing capacity to deliver the program through daily asynchronous self-learning modules and weekly, hour-long synchronous group meetings with program facilitators. Tele-Savvy addresses all of the learning objectives of the current in-person Savvy program (Savvy entails in-person participation in six weekly two-hour group sessions).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* an informal caregiver for a person with a dementing disorder, such as Alzheimer's disease
* able to speak, read, and understand English
* has access to a computer with internet connection
* lives in the US

Exclusion Criteria:

* unwilling to participate in data gathering

Primary outcomes:
measure: The number of participants who use at least half of the opportunities (half of the conferences and half of the daily lessons)
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Zarit Burden Interview Score
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale Score
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in State Trait Anxiety Index (STAI) Score
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Perceived Stress Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Caregiver Self-Efficacy Score
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Personal Mastery scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
measure: Change in Lawton Activities of Daily Living (ADL) / Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
state: Georgia
Study officials:
affiliation: Emory University
name: Kenneth Hepburn, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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