Clinical trial NCT04428034: Learning Skills Together Pilot Study
Official title: A Pilot Evaluation of Learning Skills Together: A Intervention to Teach Complex Care Skills to Caregivers of Persons Living With Alzheimer's Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Caregiving
Complex Care
Self Efficacy
Intervention
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-06-11
Enrollment: 41
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A pre- and post-test design to test the Learning Skills Together program will be employed.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The Learning Skills Together (LST) program is a synchronous web-based educational intervention developed to address the essential need for training to equip family caregivers to someone with mid-stage Alzheimer's disease to confidently provide complex care tasks.The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility of delivering LST, the program's acceptability to caregivers, and likelihood of effecting caregivers self-efficacy and mastery.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Family member (including families of choice) to an individual living with Alzheimer's disease who has received a diagnosis from a physician
* Ages 18 and old
* Provides assistance with at least two instrumental activities of daily living or one activity of daily living
* Care recipient is described as being within mid-stage Alzheimer's Disease
* There are no plans to place the care recipient in a skilled nursing facility within the next 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* The caregiver is paid to provide care
* The caregiver does not have reliable access to a computer and internet
* The caregiver is unable to read and speak English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Caregiver Competency
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 4 weeks post-intervention; and to 8 weeks post-intervention
measure: Change in Caregiver Mastery
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 4 weeks post-intervention; and to 8 weeks post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: UT Health San Antonio
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: UT Health San Antonio
name: Carole L White, PhD, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Chan EY, Glass G, Chua KC, Ali N, Lim WS. Relationship between Mastery and Caregiving Competence in Protecting against Burden, Anxiety and Depression among Caregivers of Frail Older Adults. J Nutr Health Aging. 2018;22(10):1238-1245. doi: 10.1007/s12603-018-1098-1.
citation: Robertson, SM, Zarit, SH, Duncan, LG, Rovine, MJ, & Femia, EE. Family caregivers' patterns of positive and negative affect. Family Relations. 2007; 56(1): 12-23.