Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: GRACE.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Shared Care. 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
Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides Caring for Persons Living With ADRD
Overview
This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides.
Detailed description
This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a home care role and preference guide to family caregivers and home care aides of persons living with disability for the purpose of identifying roles between family caregivers and home care aides, as well as preliminary effects on older adult social engagement, caregiver distress, continuity, and feelings of being overwhelmed, family caregiver/direct care worker preparedness, relational coordination, and service satisfaction. The intervention will involve delivering the home care role and preference guide to up to 50 family caregiver-home care care aide dyads to demonstrate the feasibility of collecting primary endpoints relating to older adults' outcomes to be examined in a future ePCT as well as intervention acceptability. Information about family caregivers and home care aide perspectives will be collected at enrollment, 2- and 4-weeks of the intervention.
Interventions
- Other GRACE
GRACE- Guide for Role Awareness and Care Engagement is a role and preference guide designed to improve information sharing and clarify role expectations between family caregivers and home care aides of older adults. This guide will outline the various domains of providing care services and preferences for older adults such as daily routine and preferred activities. The intervention will be delivered in-person to the family caregiver and home care aide at the care recipient's home.
Primary outcome measures
- Acceptability as assessed by survey [Time frame: 2 week and 4 weeks]
- Feasibility as assessed by survey [Time frame: 2 week and 4 weeks]
- Low Social Engagement as assessed by survey question [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Caregiver is Overwhelmed as assessed by survey question [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Caregiver Distress assessed by survey question [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Caregiver Continuity assessed by survey item [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Caregiver Preparedness assessed by The Caregiving Preparedness Scale (CPS) [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Relational Coordination assessed by survey [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Direct Care Worker Job Satisfaction assessed by survey question [Time frame: Baseline, 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
- Number of participants with new Direct Care Worker [Time frame: 2 weeks and 4 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Home care agency aide:
- English speaking,
- home care aides, personal care aides, or personal care aides, providing services to older adults with ADRD.
- Family or unpaid caregiver eligible for the study if:
- 18 years and older
- English speaking
- hear well enough to communicate by telephone
- identify themselves as the primary family member or unpaid (friend/companion) caregiver
Exclusion criteria
- Home care aides are ineligible if:
- non-English speaking
- certified nursing assistants, nursing assistant, home health aides, or medication technicians.
- Family/unpaid caregivers ineligible if:
- less than 18 years old
- non-English speaking
- do not hear well enough to communicate by telephone
- two or more incorrect answers or not being able to respond to a validated 6-item telephone screening instrument
- are not identified as the person's primary caregiver, or are paid for services.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07227558 · IRB00022916 · 5K01AG080079-03