Building Better Caregivers: Development and Evaluation

NCT ID: NCT02205671

Last Updated: 2017-04-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 128 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-03-31

Brief Summary

The program consists of a 6-week small-group workshop for caregivers of people with memory problems.

The goal of the study is to evaluate in a one year longitudinal study, program effectiveness in reducing caregiver stress, depression, fatigue, burden, days lost from work and improving sleep, healthful behaviors and self-efficacy

Detailed Description

The Building Better Caregivers workshop meets for 2.5 hours per week for 6 weeks in small groups of 10-16. It is peer-led (leaders already trained in the Stanford model must take a 2-day cross-training before leading a BBC workshop).

Participants will learn self-management skills such as decision making, goal setting, action planning, stress management, dealing with difficult behaviors, working with the health care system, planning for the future,building an exercise program, communication skills, healthy eating, etc.

All participants will complete follow up questionnaires and 6 and 12 months. They will have the option of completing the questionnaire by mail or telephone interview.

Once a particular workshop site is identified by a partner organization, Stanford will provide packets of consents and questionnaires to the site coordinator(non-Stanford). The site coordinator will either schedule an extra hour for the first meeting of the 6-week series, or an orientation meeting held a week or so before the workshop begins. During this time, the coordinator will announce to the prospective subjects that this study is being conducted and that they are invited to participate, and will pass out a consent, questionnaire and consent copy to each prospective participant. The consent and questionnaire are self-administered.

This study is longitudinal, so no randomization will take place.

Stanford holds no meetings, but receives the data. The site coordinators hold the orientation meetings. The workshops are scheduled by the various organizations, and they determine when and how the orientation time is scheduled. It will vary from site to site.

Conditions

Providing Care for People With Memory Problems

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

Building Better Caregivers Small-group Workshop

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Building Better Caregivers Small-group Workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

Building Better Caregivers Small-group Workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Family or friend caregiver of someone with cognitive impairment for at least 10 hours per week
• 18 years of age or older
• Able to attend a workshop 2.5 hours per week for 6 weeks
• Speaks English

Exclusion Criteria

• Professional caregiver
• Under 18 years of age
• Non-English speaking

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kate Lorig

Professor Emeritus

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kate Lorig, DRPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stanford School of Medicine

Locations

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

29894

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id