Clinical trial NCT04946942: Implementing a Family Caregiver Checklist in Primary Care: A Pilot Study
Official title: Implementing a Family Caregiver Checklist in Primary Care: A Pilot Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Caregiver Burnout
Keywords: Caregiver
Older adult
Primary care
Screening
Lead sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2021-07-01
Enrollment: 111
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 89
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SCREENING

Brief summary: The goal of this project is to pilot test CHEC (Collaborative Healthcare Encounters with Caregivers) in primary care. CHEC is brief intervention with two components: 1) a checklist to identify the needs and concerns of unpaid/family caregivers who accompany older patients (aged 65+) to their primary care visits and 2) accompanying Tip Sheet for clinicians.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Patients

* Age 65-89
* English speaking
* Women and men
* Of varying race/ethnicity
* Accompanied to primary care visits at the Center on Aging by a family caregiver (family caregiver also consents to participating in this study)
* Sufficient cognitive capacity to consent themselves or through a legal representative

Caregivers

* Age 21+
* English speaking
* Women and men
* Of varying race/ethnicity
* Accompany an older adult to his or her primary care visits at the Center on Aging (Older adult also consents to participating in this study)
* Cognitively intact (on basis of a 6-item cognitive screen)

Clinicians

* Age 21+
* Women and men
* Of varying race/ethnicity
* Treat patients at the Center on Aging

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients, caregivers, and clinicians that do not meet the inclusion criteria.
* Patients and caregivers who are deaf or have hearing impairments that limit their ability to answer telephone queries.
* Caregivers who are visually impaired and cannot see well enough to read large print and complete paper-based surveys.
* Patients and/or caregivers whose dyad counterpart does not consent to take part in the study (i.e., Patients gives consent and their caregiver does not).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Accrual rate, as measured by the number of caregivers who complete the checklist
timeFrame: Through study completion, up to 1 year
measure: Acceptable length of CHEC, as measured by the proportion of caregivers who report that the checklist is an acceptable length
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
measure: CHEC's ease of use, as measured by the proportion of caregivers who report that the checklist is easy to use
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
measure: CHEC's helpfulness in identify caregivers' needs, as measured by the proportion of caregivers who report that the checklist is helpful in identifying their needs
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
measure: CHEC's helpfulness in starting a conversation with health care providers about caregivers' needs, as measured by the proportion of caregivers who report that the checklist is helpful in starting a conversation with providers about their needs
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
measure: Desire to continue use, as measured by the number caregivers who report that they desire to continue using the checklist in the future
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
measure: Discussion of caregivers' needs, as measured by the number of completed checklists that result in a conversation with providers about caregiver needs/concerns
timeFrame: Post intervention, at 1 week
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Weill Cornell Medicine
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
name: Catherine Riffin, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Cornell University
name: Karl Pillemer, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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