Clinical trial NCT07006116: Caregiver Bootcamp
Official title: Caregiver Bootcamp: Mastering the First Hundred Days
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Keywords: Caregiver
Dementia
Person living with dementia
Lead sponsor: Emory University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2025-06-05
Enrollment: 48
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: The investigators will enroll caregivers in six cohorts of 8 each to participate in this Stage Ib clinical trial.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study will assess the preliminary efficacy of a synchronous/asynchronous psychoeducation program designed to promote caregiving mastery in the immediate time period after a dementia diagnosis. It will also study the effects on caregiver and care recipient well-being.

Detailed description: The Caregiver Bootcamp program will employ psychoeducational methods (expert instruction, expectation of active learning by participants, debriefing and coaching linked to participant reports of application of strategies and principles) to enhance the proposed mechanism of action of the intervention, the enhancement of caregiving mastery - the individual's self-acknowledgement of self-efficacy for coping with the stresses of the new caregiving role.

The program is meant to provide basic orientation to the situation: recognize the reality of the condition; understand the shifts in mindset that the immediate situation demands; begin to recognize the shift in responsibility that will have to occur; and take practical steps to prepare for the future. The program will combine 5 weekly small group 90-120-minute online sessions with asynchronous instructional materials delivered 2-4 days in between sessions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. over the age of 21;
2. care partner/caregiver for a family or friend who has received a diagnosis of a form dementia from a healthcare provider in the last 6 months;
3. has access to an electronic device and/or access to broadband internet; and
4. able to speak and understand English. Caregivers are not required to be co-located with the care recipient.

Exclusion Criteria:

* considering moving the PLWD to an institutional setting within the next 6 months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in caregiver sense of mastery
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 and 3-months post-intervention
measure: Change in caregiver self-efficacy: symptom management scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 and 3-months post-intervention
measure: Change in caregiver self-efficacy: support services scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 and 3-months post-intervention
measure: Change in caregiver self-efficacy: medication management scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 and 3-months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
state: Georgia
Study officials:
affiliation: Emory University
name: Carolyn Clevenger, RN, DNP
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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