Telehealth to Reduce Mental Health in Family Caregivers
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Behavioral: Behavior Activation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mental Health Issue, Grief, Burden, Caregiver. Basic parameters: 18 years — 120 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Utilizing Telehealth to Reduce Pre-Death Grief, Burden, and Stress in Family Caregivers
Overview
The overarching goal of this project is to evaluate if evidence-based interventions can reduce PDG, burden, and stress in informal caregivers of individuals with dementia when provided over telehealth.
Detailed description
Aim 1: Examine the effects of two individual evidence-based therapies for informal caregivers of dementia patients over telehealth.
Interventions
- Other Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Individual tele-therapy 12 to 16 weeks - Other Behavioral: Behavior Activation
Individual therapy 12 to 16 weeks
Primary outcome measures
- Prolonged Grief Scale-12 (measuring pre-death grief) [Time frame: [Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months]]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI) [Time frame: [Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months]]
- Perceived Stress Scale [Time frame: [Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months]]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Participants must be informal caregivers (e.g., spouse; child; close friend) of individuals with dementia
- Informal caregivers can be family members or close friends
- Adults (18 to 89 years old) who read, write, and speak in English
- Mental Health Diagnosis (e.g., Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Major Depressive Disorder
Exclusion criteria
- Formal caregivers (who are being paid to take care of the patient)
- Any informal caregivers with cognitive impairment is identified during the assessment.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Texas Tech University — Lubbock
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05696704 · TexasTechU2