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Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills to Develop Enhanced Relationships (KINDER)

No phase Interventional Elder Mistreatment Elder Abuse Quality of Care Dementia

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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: Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills to Develop Enhanced Relationships, Healthy Living for the Caregiver.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Elder Mistreatment, Elder Abuse, Quality of Care, 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
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Official title

Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills to Develop Enhanced Relationships (KINDER): Testing the Efficacy of an Intervention to Prevent Psychological Elder Abuse in Family Caregiving

Overview

The Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills to Develop Enhanced Relationships (KINDER) intervention was developed to prevent psychological elder abuse (EA) and promote high-quality caregiving by lowering relationship strain and developing CG resourcefulness. The goal of this two-arm, randomized control trial is to determine the efficacy of KINDER at mitigating psychological EA by family caregivers to persons living with dementia and to describe how the intervention may work to reduce psychological EA.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills to Develop Enhanced Relationships
    KINDER is an 8-week intervention that consists of three facilitated group discussion sessions conducted over Zoom with a small group of caregivers, in addition to self-paced lessons delivered using a printed or PDF workbook, depending on participant preference. Throughout KINDER, caregivers reflect on their relationship, including how their behavior toward the care recipient may need to change considering new vulnerabilities with dementia, and how to communicate about topics that often contribut
  • Behavioral Healthy Living for the Caregiver
    Caregivers in the control arm will receive a workbook that covers 8 weeks of content focused on healthy living (e.g., nutrition).

Primary outcome measures

  • Psychological Elder Abuse [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks post-intervention, 12 weeks post-intervention, 24 weeks post-intervention]
  • Quality of Caregiving [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks post-intervention, 12 weeks post-intervention, 24 weeks post-intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
  • Resourcefulness [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks post-intervention, 12 weeks post-intervention, 24 weeks post-intervention]
  • Caregiving Relationship Strain [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks post-intervention, 12 weeks post-intervention, 24 weeks post-intervention]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Age range: from 18 to No upper limit;
  • Be a family member to an individual living with AD/ADRD;
  • Provide assistance with at least two instrumental activities of daily living or one activity of daily living;
  • Provides at least 4 hours of caregiving per day and sees the care recipient in-person at least 2 times per week on average
  • The care recipient is at least age 65 or older
  • Report an AD8 Dementia Screening score for care recipients of at least 2;
  • Commit to attending at three discussion sessions;
  • Have reliable access to internet and email, and to be able to attend synchronous sessions using the Zoom videoconferencing platform.
  • Caregiver lives in any of the following states, which may require mandetory reporting of elder mistreatment when responding to survey questions:

Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming

Exclusion criteria

  • Are unable to read or speak English;
  • Previously participated in Learning Skills Together (NCT05846984) or KINDER pilot study;
  • Have plans to place the care recipient in a skilled nursing facility within the next 8 months (i.e., study duration)

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single blind
Primary purpose
Prevention

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07216950 · STUDY20250080

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗