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Caregiver as Navigator: Develop Skills Online (CAN-DO)

No phase Interventional Dementia

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In plain language

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Caregiver as Navigator: Develop Skills Online (CAN-DO) program, Healthy Living online course.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Dementia. Basic parameters: from 18 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
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Official title

Caregiver as Navigator: Develop Skills Online (CAN-DO) Developing Dementia Family Caregiver Mastery for Navigating Complex Health, Social Service, Legal, Financial, and Family Systems

Overview

This study is designed to learn more about ways to promote caregiver mastery online. 270 dementia family caregivers will be enrolled and randomized to take the CAN-DO online course immediately or after a waiting period. They will participate in interviews before and after the course; total time of study participation is 6 months.

Detailed description

Family members and friends are the core of the uncoordinated system of care that tenuously maintains persons living with dementia in their community settings and delays their placement into more costly settings of institutional care, providing more contributed and out of pocket care support than Medicare and Medicaid combined.

The CAN-DO program fills a significant gap in caregiver psychoeducation programming by focusing not principally on day-to-day care management but on the many substantial system navigation tasks that caregivers assume. Supported by preliminary efficacy data, CAN-DO will employ state-of-the art asynchronous interactive learning methods to enhance caregivers' mastery of skills and confidence to navigate healthcare and other (legal, financial, social service, and family) systems that are crucial to the continued community living of persons affected with dementia illnesses.

This study will enroll 270 dementia family caregivers who will be randomized to take the CAN-DO course immediately or after a waiting period. They will participate in interviews before and after the course; total time of study participation is 6 months.

Interventions

  • Other Caregiver as Navigator: Develop Skills Online (CAN-DO) program
    Online, asynchronous psychoeducation program for dementia family caregivers. The program is meant to enhance caregivers' knowledge and skills for navigating healthcare, financial, legal, and family systems. The program has three main sections. * The first section provides information and how to prepare for using the healthcare system and community-based services in dementia care and support. * The second provides information about how to be more effective when using the financial and legal sys
  • Other Healthy Living online course
    Online program for dementia family caregivers about "Healthy Living" for the first 4 months post-randomization.

Primary outcome measures

  • Change in Pearlin Caregiver Stress Scales score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in Caregiver Assessment of Behavioral Skill scale score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in State-Trait Anxiety Scale score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in Perceived Stress Scale score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in Caregiver Burden Index [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in Dyadic Relationship Scale score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
  • Change in Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]
  • Change in Quality of Life in Alzheimer's score [Time frame: Baseline, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months post-intervention]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Family member or friend providing at least 4 hours per week of informal care for a community-dwelling person living with ADRD
  • 18 years or older
  • Has internet access
  • Does not have to co-reside with the individual
  • Understands, speaks, and reads English

Exclusion criteria

  • Family caregiver plans to move care recipient to an institutional setting within the next six months
  • Care recipient currently enrolled in hospice

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
Supportive care

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery — Atlanta

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06177990 · STUDY00006261 · 1R01AG082833-01

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗