Clinical trial NCT05292248: CONFIDENCE Financial Education for Caregivers
Official title: Confidently Navigating Financial Decisions and Enhancing Financial Wellbeing in Dementia Caregiving
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Caregiver Burden
Financial Stress
Dementia
Alzheimer Disease
Keywords: Out-of-pocket costs
Behavioral intervention
Hispanic
Latino
Self-Efficacy
Lead sponsor: Case Western Reserve University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: AARP Foundation
name: University of Southern California
First posted: 2022-03-23
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine how feasible it is to deliver an online course to reduce out-of-pocket costs of caregiving and reduce financial stress among Latino family caregivers to a family member living with dementia. The investigators hope that that the results of this study will help to reduce high these out-of-pocket costs and improve financial wellbeing for Latino family caregivers.

Caregivers will be asked to to participate in 3 online surveys, in addition to participating in 5, 1.5 hour group-based Zoom learning sessions.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Caregiver to someone diagnosed by a physician with probably Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia at least 6 months ago
* Latino or Hispanic ethnicity
* At least 50 years of age of older
* Able to attend 5, 1.5 hour to 2 hour group-based lessons over 5 weeks
* No plans to place family member in a facility within the next 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unreliable access to email, a computer and internet access
* Does note speak and read English
* Previously participated in CONFIDENCE program

Primary outcomes:
measure: Monthly Out-of-pocket Caregiving Costs
timeFrame: Change in median costs from from baseline to 8 weeks post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Psychological Financial Strain
timeFrame: Change from baseline to post-intervention (within 1 week); change from baseline to 8 weeks post-intervention
measure: Caregiver Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline to post-intervention (within 1 week); change from baseline to 8 weeks post-intervention
measure: Caregiver Resourcefulness
timeFrame: Change from baseline to post-intervention (within 1 week); change from baseline to 8 weeks post-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cleveland
country: United States
facility: Case Western Reserve University
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
name: Kylie Meyer, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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