Clinical trial NCT05390333: Measuring the Effectiveness of Self-Care Sampler for Family Care Partners in Reducing Caregiver Stress
Official title: Measuring the Effectiveness of Self-Care Sampler for Family Care Partners in Reducing Caregiver Stress
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Caregiver Stress
Keywords: Family Caregiver
Caregiver Stress
Lead sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Cigna
First posted: 2022-05-25
Enrollment: 19
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: To determine the effectiveness of the Self-care Sampler for Family Care Partners program in reducing caregiver stress over the 6-week program period. Hypothesis: Participants who attend the 6 class sessions over 6 weeks of the program will have a lower score on the Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI) when compared to baseline. This will indicate a decrease in overall stress.

Detailed description: The 6-week Self-Care Sampler for Family Caregivers program was created to provide a variety of evidence-based self-care practices that improve the mental and physical health of caregivers by relieving stress and encouraging preventive health behaviors (Acton, 2002). To determine the effectiveness of the Self-care Sampler for Family Care Partners program in reducing caregiver stress over the 6-week program period. Hypothesis: Participants who attend the 6 class sessions over 6 weeks of the program will have a lower score on the Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI) when compared to baseline. This will indicate a decrease in overall stress. For each 6-week program, sessions will take place once a week for 90 minutes, each starting with a centering exercise and focusing on a new form of self-care. The program gives caregivers a space to connect with others and form social bonds that could extend outside of our sessions. We will run the 6-week Self-Care Sampler for Family Caregivers program three times (three intervention periods) in 2022.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Any relative, partner, friend or neighbor who has a significant personal relationship with, and provides a broad range of assistance for, an older person or an adult with a chronic or disabling condition.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who cannot speak English which would prevent full participation
* Those with hearing, vision, or cognitive impairment that prevents participation over video
* Individuals who are not adults
* Prisoners

Primary outcomes:
measure: Stress, as measured by Modified Caregiver Strain Index change
timeFrame: Baseline, week 1 change Post-Intervention, week 6
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lebanon
country: United States
facility: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging
state: New Hampshire
Study officials:
affiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
name: Ellen Flaherty, Ph. D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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