Telephone-coached "Graphic Narrative" Bibliotherapy for Dementia Caregivers
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In plain language
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy, Control group.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Dementia Caregiver, Depressive Symptoms, Caregiving Appraisal. 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
- Hong Kong
- 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
Telephone-coached "Graphic Narrative" Bibliotherapy for Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia
Overview
This study aims to assess the efficacy of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy in improving dementia caregiver depressive symptoms compared with the booklet group.
Detailed description
This is a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial using a repeated-measures design to examine the effects of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy on 128 (64 per group) informal caregivers of people with dementia. Participants in the intervention group will receive eight weekly telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy sessions, plus two face-to-face booster sessions and two follow-up sessions. The control group will receive an education booklet and check-in calls. Caregiver depressive symptoms, stress and anxiety, caregiving appraisal, care-recipient neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality of life will be measured to test the intervention's effects immediately after completion and at a 6-month follow-up.
Interventions
- Other Telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy
Eight weekly sessions of telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy - Other Control group
Reading educational booklet
Primary outcome measures
- Changes in depressive symptoms [Time frame: Pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Changes in caregiving appraisal [Time frame: Pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention]
- Changes in stress and anxiety [Time frame: Pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention]
- Changes in patient neuropsychiatric symptoms [Time frame: Pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention]
- Changes in quality of life [Time frame: Pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- provide unpaid care to a person diagnosed with early to moderate stage dementia;
- provide at least 14 hours of care a week for at least 3 months
- aged 18 years or above
- able to read
- have depressive symptoms
- use a message application
Exclusion criteria
- with an unstable physical or mental condition
- with cognitive impairment
- receiving medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment for depression
- have been included in another interventional study
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
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Hong Kong · 1 center
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Hong Kong SAR
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06413849 · P0047108