Clinical trial NCT05996718: Improving Care Through Improv: Promoting Mastery in the Moment
Official title: Improving Care Through Improv: Promoting Mastery in the Moment
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Caregiver Burden
Lead sponsor: Georgia State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2023-08-18
Enrollment: 43
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: The goals of this clinical trial are to: 1) refine the training program, "Improving Care though Improv;" and 2) test the program for its influence self-perceived caregiving mastery (i.e., how persons assess their ability to provide care) among informal caregivers of persons living with moderate dementia. Forty-three informal caregivers will be involved in testing the training program. These individuals will be assigned to groups of between 8 to12 caregivers and take part in weekly 2-hour sessions held over a 4-week period. These caregivers will be taught improvisational (improv) theater skills, which involves being in the moment, self-awareness, and responsiveness to others. This group also will be asked to answer surveys questions about themselves and the person receiving care at three timepoints and invited to provide feedback on their training experiences.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Actively engaged in the care of community-dwelling persons living with moderate dementia (4 or 5 on a 7-point dementia-staging scale) who is not likely to be institutionalized within the next 6 months
* Able to attend at least 3 of the 4 in-person sessions
* Ability to communicate in English

Exclusion Criteria: Potential participants were excluded if they did not meet the above criteria or anticipated moving their person to a skilled nursing facility within the next 6 months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pearlin Mastery, Loss, and Competence: Caregiver Competence Subscale
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Perceived Stress Scale
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: Zarit Burden Inventory
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: Revised Memory and Behavioral Problems Checklist - FREQUENCY
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease Scale
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
measure: Revised Memory and Behavioral Problems Checklist - REACTION
timeFrame: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Georgia State University
state: Georgia
Study officials:
affiliation: Georgia State Univeristy
name: Candace L Kemp, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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